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Chapter 29 Take a Walk
The Empress Dowager Shengci's place was still the same, she didn't even get a rabbit into it.

Seeing Xiaodong, the palace maid laughed after the accident, and went in to report. After a while, the Empress Dowager Shengci came out.

She is still the same, without makeup on her face, and she doesn't wear much jewelry on her head, only two hairpins. She looks pretty good—although the complexion is not very good, but Xiaodong met Sheng Sheng first. The Empress Dowager De has already had the worst base. Seeing the appearance of the Empress Dowager Shengci again, of course I feel very good.

The maid laid down the mat, Xiaodong knelt down and kowtowed in salute.She can be regarded as half a well-trained person now, at least there will be no more incidents where a kowtow turns into a ground ball.

The Empress Dowager Shengci beckoned her to come forward and held her small fat hand.Xiaodong's hands are slender, white and round, like a good white flour steamed bun.Hu said that her hands are good: "The princess's hands are the hands of a lifetime of happiness."

Xiaodong asked: "Is the Empress Dowager in good health?"

The Empress Dowager Shengci nodded: "Okay, it's just that it's still cold and I don't want to go out of the house." She ordered people to take Hu Shi and Hong Ling to wait elsewhere, and asked someone to bring tea, fruit and snacks to Xiaodong, and asked her if she had eaten No.

In fact, Xiaodong felt that the Empress Dowager Shengci was not as serious and indifferent as others said, she... seemed to just not know how to get along with people.

This is actually the case in the palace, right?There are many people who are not naturally taciturn, or dull.Either they are scared of being beaten, or they are scared of being scared.Xiaodong saw that the court ladies and eunuchs looked like clay sculptures, even if the sweat dripped into their eyes, they couldn't raise their hands to wipe them.

When King An brought her here for the first time, the Empress Dowager Shengci didn't say a total of ten words, she seemed very reserved and the scene was cold.But Xiaodong came by himself, although the Empress Dowager Shengci didn't have a warm and smiling face, but Xiaodong could tell that she was not thoughtful or considerate.

Perhaps it was because she was a child that the Empress Dowager Shengci was able to let go.

Xiaodong said: "I ate porridge when I came here." She picked a piece of dim sum on the plate, broke it open, and inside was fragrant meat floss stuffing.She handed half of it to Empress Dowager Shengci: "Your Majesty, eat."

Empress Dowager Shengci was a little dazed, and slowly took the snacks.

Xiaodong took a big bite, but she didn't taste what kind of meat it was, anyway, it was very fragrant, not greasy, not hard, just suitable for children to eat.

The Empress Dowager Shengci saw that her cheeks were puffed up and the corner of her mouth was covered with cake crumbs, so she wiped it for her and took a bite herself.

After eating meat floss snacks, jujube cakes, and two freshly cut melons, Xiaodong's stomach was bulging, and the palace servants around the queen mother smiled and said: "Thanks to the princess, my mother has a good appetite." It's never been so good. But after eating so much now, I still need to get up and move around so that I don't accumulate food."

Xiaodong looked up at the Empress Dowager Shengci.

Empress Dowager Shengci hesitated: "Then let's take a walk in the yard."

The sun had already risen, and it shone warmly on my body.A row of flower branches against the wall are all sprouting buds.Xiaodong didn't know what kind of flower it was.If it grows leaves and blooms, she might know it, but now it is naked, and nothing can be seen.

The Empress Dowager walked slowly holding Xiaodong's hand, at first she seemed a little stiff, but then gradually relaxed.He also pointed to the flowering branch and said to her, "That's Sutong flower. The flower is very fragrant. When the petals are dried, they can be used to make sachets and stuff pillows. When the flowers bloom, I'll ask someone to make two for you."

Xiaodong nodded, looking at the flower branch curiously.

I can't see that it will bloom very fragrant flowers.

The Empress Dowager Shengci said softly: "After the late emperor left, the emperor asked me if I wanted to move. I said I was used to living here, and I didn't want to move."

This is...um, chatting with her?

Empress Dowager Shengci probably hasn't chatted with anyone much... Uh, Xiaodong is a little bit dumbfounded.

Even if it's rare to relax and want to chat, but I'm so old, it's impossible to chat with her.

However, what the Empress Dowager Shengci needs is not what she said.

She listened enough.

"After I gave birth to your father, my health was not very good. I moved here to recuperate. The Changchun Palace is quiet, and the word Changchun also means good. Afterwards, my health gradually recovered, and I also got used to living here. gone."

Xiaodong pondered for a while, she went to the Empress Dowager Shengde several times, the Empress Dowager Shengde lived in Fengyi Palace - this should be the place where the queen lived, so the Empress Dowager Shengde did not move the palace either.

Since she didn't move, of course the Empress Dowager Shengci is not easy to move.Living habits may be one reason.But the more important reason should be that the Empress Dowager Shengde does not move, so the Empress Dowager Shengci can only follow along?
With this question in mind, Xiaodong asked Zhao Lu after returning.

Zhao Lvcai came back from school, took a few sips of pear tea with his tea bowl, put down the bowl, wiped his mouth and said, "Ah, I know that. The Empress Dowager should live in the Ciqing Palace. But it seemed that the Ciqing Palace hadn't been there for a long time. It was repaired, and the national treasury had just finished the war, the national funeral, and the imperial mausoleum and so on. There was no money to repair it immediately, and the Empress Dowager Shengde fell ill again... I don’t know what happened, so I didn’t move it. "

I don't know why, but this sentence is very good.

Zhao Lu and Xiaodong are both children, so of course it can be said that they don't know what's going on.

But don't everyone else know what's going on?

Why did Empress Dowager Shengde refuse to move?Is it just because the Ciqing Palace is dilapidated and in disrepair?

No, definitely not the case.

It's just that Xiaodong knows too little, so he doesn't know.

But she didn't intend to investigate further about this matter, and asked Zhao Lu: "Is that Brother Qin going to school too? Is he smart?"

Zhao Lu rubbed his head, his face was a little strange: "Well...it's okay."

Fortunately, what do you mean?Not bad, or not so good?

If it's really good, with Zhao Lu's personality, he wouldn't brag about it.

There must be something wrong, and there is something wrong with it.

Xiaodong pondered, looking at Yao Jinfeng's appearance, it's likely that he hasn't learned any rules.This Qin Lie, don’t tell me he didn’t know a single word before, right?
Shen Qiang anxiously came to ask Xiaodong how Shen Fang was doing.Xiaodong thought for a while, and Hong Ling had already said: "Miss Fang is doing well, she lives alone, and spends the day with the fourth princess, she looks more quiet, and asked us to ask Miss Qian not to worry about it, don't be naughty and playful. , I will test your handwriting next time I see her."

Shen Qiang's face suddenly wrinkled into a ball: "Why does she still remember this?"

While talking, Yao Jinfeng came.

Her face was flushed, and she didn't know if she had done any strenuous exercise. When she saw Zhao Lu, she said, "Ah Lu, let's go out to play? Those people said that I can't go out alone, I have to go with you."

Her habits are different from those in the capital, calling everyone ah or something.

Zhao Luchu was also very surprised when he saw this cousin Yao, but soon he began to lose interest in her personality.Such a lively temperament - it's like a fish just taken out of the pond, snapping, throwing and hitting, it's too vigorous.

Hearing this moment, I feel a little headache.

"It'll have to wait until the time of vacation—and with father's permission."

If he was the only one to go out by himself, of course there was no need to ask King Shi'an for permission, but it was another matter to bring the sisters at home.Besides, taking the sisters out is absolutely different from going out by themselves. They have to take a carriage and take the people who follow them. It is very troublesome to pay attention to this and that.

He is happy to bring his own sister, Yao Jinfeng...

Zhao Lu vaguely felt that there would be trouble taking her out.

(End of this chapter)