Chapter 84: Multi-day Tour of Shoukang Palace
The next day, Zhao Mingzhu was sitting at the dressing table washing her hands when Qiao'er came in:
"Crown Princess, the maid from Shoukang Palace is here."
Zhao Mingzhu turned her head and said with a smile, "Please come in, Madam."
As soon as I open my eyes, I start socializing.
Zhao Mingzhu guessed the other party's purpose. She vaguely thought that it might be for the lady from Qingzhou?
The nanny came in and bowed, saying, "The Empress Dowager has guests at her palace, and she invites Your Highness and the Crown Princess to come in and have dinner together."
Sure enough, Zhao Mingzhu gestured for her to stand up after hearing this: "I understand. Thank you for taking this trip, Jinzhu."
Jinzhu took out some silver peanuts from her sleeve and gave a handful to Mammy: "Thank you for taking this trip."
The maid in Shoukang Palace smiled so hard that her eyelids doubled up. This Crown Princess was always generous and easy to talk to.
"How dare this old servant accept it? It's all my job, not worth the trouble."
Jinzhu smiled angrily: "Madam, please accept it. It's just a little money for tea."
"Then this old slave is shameless."
Zhao Mingzhu nodded and watched her turn and walk out. Her upright body immediately relaxed.
"It's so tiring. I don't know if I can be reborn into the kind of worker I want in my next life."
After hearing this, Jinzhu tied her hair up and asked, "Which one is the Crown Princess talking about?"
She was going to the palace today, so she had to dress up carefully. Zhao Mingzhu was wearing a smoky green palace dress with scattered flowers, and a long gauze dress that reached the ground. Her waist was as slender as a willow, and her shoulders were as sharp as a knife.
In her bun is a golden-threaded, eight-treasure, five-phoenix crown, with a phoenix-head hairpin holding a pearl, and around her neck is a mandarin duck-shaped pearl necklace.
Zhao Mingzhu touched the cinnabar mole on his forehead and said lazily, "No need to deal with people."
Jinzhu smiled faintly after hearing this: "The Crown Princess is talking nonsense again. I have never seen anything like this in my life."
As long as people are alive, they cannot avoid dealing with others.
Zhao Mingzhu supported her chin and watched in the bronze mirror as Jinzhu quickly inserted the jade hair comb for her.
Yes, I work as a boiler master at the crematorium.
Just focus on your work, the customers won't talk anyway.
If the customer starts to get bossy, turn up the heat.
Zhao Mingzhu was jealous and wondered who invented such a job and made her work like this!
Qiao'er brought a copper basin and dripped rose and gardenia dew into it. "Crown Princess, can't you just stop working? How wonderful it would be to be reborn as a flower, a tree, or a bird."
Qiao Er happily added, "But even if the Crown Princess is a flower, a tree, or a bird, she is the most precious and rare in the world."
Zhao Mingzhu was awakened by the words. She held her forehead and smiled bitterly: "Woman...you are really..."
She is truly a slave for once, a slave for life.
In the carriage, Gu Qingheng looked at Zhao Mingzhu with her head drooping and couldn't help but laugh: "What's wrong?"
Zhao Mingzhu sat down: "Nothing, just tired."
I feel tired.
Gu Qingheng closed the travel diary, reached out and pressed the side wall, and a secret drawer popped out.
"Then I believe these will surely relieve the Crown Princess's fatigue."
Zhao Mingzhu didn't take it seriously until a charming smell entered her nose. She pretended not to care and put her hand in honestly.
"Today the King of Heaven is here... Is it sesame honey-glazed pork jerky?!"
The only way to relieve worries is to eat delicious food.
Zhao Mingzhu picked up the meat jerky, and Gu Qingheng handed her a handkerchief: "Wipe your hands later."
Zhao Mingzhu took it without wiping her hands. She wrapped the meat jerky and put it in her mouth, sighing that those who don't understand the deliciousness of honey-glazed meat jerky are in trouble...
"How is it? Are you feeling better?" Gu Qingheng poured a cup of roselle tea that he had brewed in advance and pushed it to her.
Zhao Mingzhu picked it up and drank it, nodding as he began to flatter:
"Your Highness must know how to eat it. I've never tasted such delicious jerky before. It's evenly thick, with just the right amount of salty and sweet, and it's rich and chewy."
Gu Qingheng remained silent. Changhe outside the carriage curled his lips and said, "Your Highness doesn't like snacks."
After eating, Zhao Mingzhu knew that she still had important things to do.
She changed into a comfortable position, leaned against the side wall and said slowly:
"After returning from Shoukang Palace, I plan to go to Guoqing Temple to admire the pear blossoms. I heard the vegetarian food there is very famous, so I'd like to stay for a few days. Would you like to go?"
Gu Qingheng won't go.
He has been very busy these days.
Sure enough, Gu Qingheng shook his head and said, "Wait until another month, when I'm on leave, I'll take you to the hot springs outside the city, okay?"
Zhao Mingzhu suppressed her ecstasy, but a hint of disappointment appeared in her bright eyes: "Forget it then, I'll just take Qiao'er with me."
Guoqing Temple was the place chosen by the Duke of Zhenguo for her to escape. She only needed to go there and she didn't need to do anything else.
Zhao Mingzhu thought, and as she lifted the curtain of the car, she took in the entire street and buildings. Perhaps this would be her last time to take a good look at this.
In Shoukang Palace, Xie Wan stood beside the empress dowager and presented her with armor. The empress dowager stretched out her finger, and Xie Wan carefully put it on her.
Then he took out a bronze mirror and asked, "Queen Mother, is this armor tight?"
The Queen Mother looked at the armor and shook her head kindly: "It's not tight. Wan'er wears it just right."
Xie Wan smiled gently after hearing this: "Then I am relieved. I was afraid that I might hurt you, the Queen Mother, because of my clumsy hands."
"You're thoughtful."
The Queen Mother pulled her closer and said, "I know you little girls are shy, but this opportunity is rare, so you must seize it."
Xie Wan was a little shy, pursing her lips like a lily: "Yes, Queen Mother."
The palace servant outside reported: "Your Highness, the Crown Princess has arrived!"
After hearing this, Xie Wan helped the empress dowager to the front hall. She secretly looked at the two people below. She had already met Gu Qingheng, so she turned her attention to Zhao Mingzhu.
The palace maids all said that the Crown Princess was beautiful, but when Xie Wan actually met her, she realized how much better she was than herself.
Her heart suddenly tightened.
"Wan'er?" The Queen Mother saw her staring at Zhao Mingzhu in a daze and reminded her.
Xie Wan reacted instantly. She stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness, I greet the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess."
Gu Qingheng made a gesture of standing up: "Since you are the guest of the Empress Dowager, there is no need to be polite."
Zhao Mingzhu sat next to him, and she was indeed a dignified lady, just like in the portrait.
She glanced at the person next to her. She felt jealous because the person who had a few more pounds of flesh than her was different.
Gu Qingheng noticed the gaze and looked over, but Zhao Mingzhu looked away again.
After a few people sat down, the palace maids came out one after another, carrying the imperial meal.
The first person Zhao Mingzhu met was Shuangyun.
Shuangyun also saw her and smiled bitterly. Her beautiful dream was gone forever.
Damn long river!
As the saying goes, don't talk while eating and don't talk while sleeping, but this doesn't apply to the Empress Dowager. She introduced Xie Wan to the two of them.
But in Zhao Mingzhu's opinion, it was actually said to Gu Qingheng.
"Wan'er has a gentle temperament, is elegant and generous, so I will let her stay in Shoukang Palace for a few days."
She changed the subject and looked at Zhao Mingzhu who was eating quietly:
"It's just that she's really lonely. The Crown Princess usually has nothing to do, so she stays in the palace for two or three days to keep me, an old woman, company."
Zhao Mingzhu, who was suddenly called upon: ...
If you want to keep someone, then keep Gu Qingheng. What's the point of keeping her?
She and Xie Wan were tied together so that the wife could impart experience to the mistress?
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