The female supporting role never believes in fate

"Miss Cheng, I'm begging for cleverness in the palace banquet today. The purpose is to worship the moon and beg for cleverness. It will officially start at night. At this moment, the empress and all the noble girls are dressing up the vegetation, rockery and wooden corridor in the imperial garden. The empress said, let you After coming, go straight to the Dabo Lake in the Imperial Garden."

Just after coming out of Yimen, before walking a few steps to the harem, a court lady in a beautiful dress came to report.

The ranks of court ladies are distinct, and most of them are plain brocade clothes. The court lady in front of her is embroidered with dark patterns and is wearing a cloak, obviously her rank is not low.

But the palace is really big, Cheng Yuguan didn't know each other, he just thought it should be a female officer of Shangyi Bureau.

"Miss Cheng, please follow me."

With that said, the female officer who spoke the language led the way.

Cheng Yuguan and Liu Yun looked at each other and followed.

The female official of the palace also has the position of the fifth rank, and is responsible for the publicity and performance in the palace.All women who are ordered to go to the middle palace are responsible for delivering the orders.

Cheng Yuguan would not embarrass the female officer face to face.Moreover, begging for cleverness and worshiping the moon is a custom, and it is very possible for the empress to arrange it this way.

The palace man walked in front with a slender gait, Cheng Yuguan led Liu Yun, and followed the two figures behind.

Liu Yun walked with the female officer for a while, seeing that the vegetation was getting darker, he couldn't help but tugged at his young lady.

Seeing that he was far away from the sons and daughters in front of him, Liu Yun gently pulled his young lady.

"Miss, everyone said that the situation in the palace is complicated. Let's just follow, isn't it too dangerous? Otherwise, we'd better go to Fengyi Palace first and meet the Empress Empress. The Empress is really not here, so let's go to the Imperial Garden."

Cheng Yuguan raised his head and glanced at the female officer whose gait was the same as before, as if he didn't hear the two people talking behind him, and whispered.

"The queen's aunt is strict in governing the palace, and she keeps her word. We suspect the lady officer without a valid reason. If what the lady said is true, won't it appear that we are petty and suspicious? Just follow her, what tricks can we have?"

Hearing what his young lady said, Liu Yun immediately felt relieved.

That's right, this is the palace, except for the maids and concubines, what kind of fierce people can there be?
Think about my young lady, although she looks thin, she has to throw stones to lock her every morning.

Just the graceful female officer in front, in the hands of my young lady, can't pass half a step.

Strength brings self-confidence and confidence. Immediately, Liu Yun did not look back and forth as if he was a thief, but followed the example of the eldest lady and moved forward calmly.

"Huh? Where are people?"

Turning around a rockery, the figure of the female officer in front suddenly disappeared.

Cheng Yuguan and Liuyun were far away from the female official, and it was the time when the vegetation was luxuriant in autumn. It seemed that the vegetation here had not been taken care of in time for many days, and there was a tendency to grow wildly.

Half a person's tall grass and a person's tall flower tree stretched their branches and leaves along the path, which covered half of the female officer's figure, but now it is even more in a blink of an eye. It's gone.

"Miss, have you been here before? Where are you going?"

Liu Yun held on to the young lady nervously.

In fact, Liu Yun has a pleasant temperament, but because he entered the palace for the first time, he was nervous, so he was a little surprised and dared not leave Cheng Yuguan's side.

Cheng Yu was concerned for a while, but she was not too nervous. She was in the palace, not in the wilderness, and if she got lost for a while, the queen's aunt would naturally ask the palace people to find her.

With confidence in his heart, Cheng Yuguan patted Liuyun's hand, "Go and look around to see where there are footprints. When someone leaves, there are always traces left. It can't be A Piao."

Liu Yun listened to the young lady's order, and moved aside the grass and trees to find the way, curious at the same time.

"Miss, what is A Piao?"

Cheng Yuguan was also fiddling with the grass and trees, looking for a path, and replied casually, "At this moment, you'd better not know."

"Oh."

Liu Yun was obedient and didn't ask any more questions, and the two of them searched for the way.

"Miss, here! It turns out that there is a path here, which is submerged by the grass."

Liu Yun suddenly opened his mouth and pointed to a gravel path for Cheng Yuguan to see.

Cheng Yuguan also pointed to a gravel road, "I have it here too."

The two roads are exactly the same, and there are moss marks newly stepped on the road.

"Where is this going?"

Liu Yun was distressed, "I dare not separate from Miss."

"Let's go, there are only two roads, choose one side first, and go to the other side if the road fails."

In this way, Cheng Yuguan led Liu Yun to the road that Liu Yun had found first.

"Miss, why is the grass getting more and more barren? I'm afraid no one will come. We made a wrong choice. Let's go back."

Walking halfway, Liuyun became more and more flustered as he walked, and began to retreat.

Cheng Yuguan shook his head, "I've already walked halfway, so I have to go to the front to see where it leads. Isn't it a waste of time? If the road is the same as here, wouldn't it be a waste of time to come back? "

Liu Yun nodded after hearing this, and stopped talking about going back.

For a while, there was silence everywhere, and from time to time, birds were startled by the movement of the two, as if they were two outsiders, breaking into their territory.

"The empress is holding a feast at the end of the Yin hour, what should we do if we can't make it in time?"

This time, the Qiqiao Palace Banquet invites all noble ladies.There is no need for a housekeeper, no need to serve in-laws, so the empress ordered Yinshi to have a banquet, also in order to avoid the remaining prestige of the autumn tiger.

Because the banquet was held late, Cheng Yuguan came here with the palace servants.

She really thought that the queen's aunt had an ingenious idea to make such an arrangement.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if it's later, just tell my aunt the reason."

Cheng Yuguan was calm.

"Will the empress blame the young lady? After all, the empress is majestic and cannot be offended."

It is a mother and daughter, and the daughter will point out the mother's fault, and the mother will become angry from embarrassment.

In this palace banquet, they had an accident, in the final analysis, it was a matter within the jurisdiction of the harem. If the young lady told the reason, would the empress be angry that the young lady was out of season?

But regardless of the reason, they are late for no reason, they also despise the empress, do not pay attention to the palace banquet, the worst is to pour cold water on the empress, this hat is not light to wear.

The more Liu Yun thought about it, the more entangled he became, his face also showed some regret.

"I shouldn't have gone with that palace man just now!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Yun felt a slip of the tongue and covered his mouth, "Miss, I am not blaming you."

"The servant girl feels that she is incompetent and can only drag the young lady down, and cannot help the young lady share her worries."

When people are afraid, they will go back and forth and chatter endlessly.

Cheng Yuguan didn't take it to heart at all, and waved his hands when he heard the words, "Shut up first, and talk when you come to the end."

Liu Yun immediately shut his mouth tightly, and followed the young lady to an unknown front.

I didn't feel it just now, but the more I walked, Cheng Yuguan felt that there should be a sloped road under her feet. She has been exercising all year round, and she can naturally find out whether it is a flat road or a broken road from the muscles of her legs and feet.

Although the slope is not obvious, they should be going up in general.

Coupled with the fact that flowers and trees are gradually forming forests here, and birds are flying in fright, Cheng Yuguan thought, this should be an abandoned hill, otherwise, there would not be so many birds.

Thinking of two years ago, when she was reading in the Ninghui Palace, Cheng Yuguan would look at it from the attic every time she was tired. At that time, when she first made the telescope, when she randomly looked around in the palace, she once saw a mountain top .

There is no palace wall there, and it is connected to Jingshan outside the palace, so there are no guards, only the imperial guards guarding outside the mountain.

Because of the sensitive terrain, when the imperial guards found someone, their first reaction might be to kill them.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yuguan's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Liu Yun couldn't stop in time, and almost ran into it.

"Miss, what's the matter, why don't you leave? Didn't you say you want to go to the end to see where it is?"

Cheng Yuguan only had a sullen face, waved his hands, and looked at Liu Yun solemnly, "Do you feel sore feet?"

Liu Yun waved his hands quickly when he heard the words, "Your servant is not tired, you can still persevere!"

But it was clear that Liu Yun's face was also red, and he was out of breath.

Liu Yun also knew that he was not up to date, so he smiled and said embarrassedly, "The servant is tired and can't compare to the young lady's daily morning exercises, so she can't keep up with the young lady. The palace is too big, and the servant walks from outside the palace to the palace. , I’m already tired, and now I’ve walked for an unknown amount of time, so I’m a little physically weak. But this servant can still hold on.”

Liu Yun was afraid that his physical strength would slow down the young lady, so he kept holding his breath and did not dare to breathe loudly.

Cheng Yuguan shook his head, "You have much better physical strength than ordinary girls. The reason why we can't make it to the end is probably because we went further and further to the outside of the palace."

"Ah? Didn't you see the palace wall?!"

Liu Yun was so shocked that he didn't bother to wipe his sweat.

"This is an important defense area, so naturally there will be no palace walls. There are forbidden troops stationed outside, and anyone who enters will die."

"what?!"

Liu Yun was dumbfounded.

Although before entering the palace, the madam and the two young mistresses told her a lot of palace rules, telling her to be careful in her words and deeds, and not to cause trouble for the young lady, otherwise she would be killed and the young lady would be implicated.Unexpectedly, they are now dead.

"Miss, let's go back."

Liu Yun immediately proposed to go back.

For the current plan, it is natural to go back.

Cheng Yuguan imagined that when he first saw this mountain, he seemed to ask Li Mian. Li Mian said that the mountain was surrounded by water on three sides, and one side protruded from the palace wall. Originally, I wanted to build a side hall for the people in the palace to visit, but it was really remote, and the emperor and empress were not extravagant, so they didn't continue to build it, and few people came to take care of it.

With the bird's-eye view and Li Mian's original introduction, Cheng Yuguan looked forward decisively.

The flowers and trees grow very densely, but they have not been taken care of for a long time, and the north and south are clearly divided.

The side with dense branches and leaves is south, and the side with sparse branches is north, which is facing the direction of oneself, that is, west, the direction of the harem.

"Come with me. If you can't find your way back, you can only keep turning in circles. Let's go straight to the west and we will definitely be able to get out."

Walking down the gravel road, stepping out a path through the overgrown grass, Cheng Yuguan even broke two branches and gave one to Liuyun, scaring the snakes while walking.

"Miss, your skirt..."

Liu Yun felt a little distressed.

This is a new Shu embroidery dress specially made by the madam for the young lady's engagement. I heard that this roll of fabric will take three months to be embroidered by Shixiu Niang.

Madam said that if you have a marriage contract, you should wear it well, and it is also to make the fourth prince look good.

Miss today is the first time to wear.Although I don't feel bad about money, I feel bad about my face.

Cheng Yuguan lifted the corner of the skirt and tucked it into his waist, revealing the long underpants under the skirt, "That's right, this good thing can't be spoiled."

...

The two walked back while pulling grass, in the imperial garden, the queen called Mei Ling.

"Go to the four gates and ask where Yuguan has gone. Yuguan is steady and will not be late for no reason."

Mei Ling looked at the noble girls all over the garden, nodded and stepped back.

"My mother, the fourth brother gave me a marriage contract this year. It was just the time to beg for a coincidence. Why did I come late today? And Miss Cheng. Half of us today are for the mother, and the other half are for the two of them. That's great. , Neither of these two will come in."

The fifth prince, Li Ke, sat at the second table below the queen and joked.

"That's right, empress, the fourth prince is diligent, so I won't talk about it if I have to be busy with business. Why isn't Cheng Yuguan here now? Don't you want to get what you want, and don't want to deal with others anymore?"

Princess Fushan once again wanted to sew her sister Fucheng's mouth shut.

Saying Cheng Yuguan is fine, don't bring the empress empress together, you are so yin and yang, you are not saying that Cheng Yuguan is putting on a show, but that the empress empress does not know people clearly and is being fooled!
Glaring at his sister Fucheng secretly, Fushan smiled at the empress.

"Your Majesty, my little sister is always straightforward, so don't take it to heart. She also misses Miss Cheng. After all, they don't know each other. Now that they're grown up, they're thinking about each other."

No ghost would believe what I said.

"Something happened to Yuguan, I'll be here in a while."

The Empress explained lightly, Fu Cheng lowered his head boredly, not daring to speak casually.

"I heard that the empress has prepared a song "A Dream in the Garden". It's a rare opera troupe in the palace. Let's listen to it carefully."

Bai Xiaoling made a relief.

"That's right, although this garden is exquisite and beautiful, it's not as good as listening to a play by the water. It's best to be as open as possible, with the sound of water and echoes, it's perfect."

The Fifth Prince said leisurely.

This Qiqiao Festival was originally a day for young men and women to meet each other. Now that all the noble ladies are here, the empress also intends to let the fifth prince Li Keduo see the ladies of other families, so after hearing what he said, she was ready to meet his wishes.

"Since the fifth prince said so, let's drive to Dabo Lake instead."

Everyone stood up and echoed, but Cheng Yulou, who was active on weekdays, just echoed and didn't speak out to provoke, but let the empress take a look.

A group of people moved to Dabo Lake under the service of the palace servants.

Just now, some palace people came here in advance to arrange the canopy in place. A group of people sat with their backs to the flowers and trees not far from the water, listening to the water surface, listening to the Fengshui Pavilion, actors and actresses singing and dancing.

The actors work hard to perform, which is naturally fascinating, but it is a pity that the people below have different thoughts.Everyone seemed to be listening but not listening, seeing but not seeing, and the atmosphere was indescribably weird.

"Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince is here."

Mei Ling ordered her subordinates to search for news about Cheng Yuguan, and when she came back at this moment, she happened to meet the fourth prince Li Mian who was here for the banquet.

Li Mian naturally also knew the news that Cheng Yuguan hadn't arrived yet.

"Mother."

The fourth prince, Li Mian, invites Ann to pay his respects.

"Fourth brother, you are late for the queen mother's palace banquet, you should be punished with a drink."

Fifth Prince Li Ke, holding a wine cup, got up to greet him.