Chapter 32 - Entering the Palace (XII)
The weather was getting warmer and drowsiness would set in after lunch, so Yuan Xi lay down on the couch in the West Warm Pavilion to rest.
On the northernmost side of the palace's canal, a little girl wearing a cherry red robe embroidered with grapes was running and fooling around on the canal, and the two palace maids followed closely behind, not daring to reprimand loudly, but only instructing in a low voice: "Princess, you slow down, don't fall."
This little girl dressed in red was none other than the Imperial First Princess Yongle, the Emperor's only daughter, now five years old.
When it comes to hibernation, rising yang, warming temperatures, spring thunder at first, rain increased, everything is full of life, the little princess is no exception, today's lunch break lying on the side of the hall of Hui Zhang is how to sleep, so they get up from the couch to the courtyard around.
The spring sunlight was warm but not too hot, so Xiao Yongle looked at the sun, but realized that the sunlight was not too hot, but still dazzling. So he covered his eyes with his hands and only looked at the sunlight through the cracks of his fingers.
"Princess! It will hurt your eyes!" The slave girl waiting on the sidelines warned.
So little Wingnut dropped his hands and walked happily toward his mother's into the main hall.
"Princess! Wen Jieyu is chanting sutras! She instructed that if you woke up early, you should play alone for a while and come back to keep you company after the chanting!" Wen Jieyu's personal palace maid QianQui stopped her.
Little Yongle looked towards the Buddha Hall and saw that his mother consort was indeed kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, chanting sutras, so he sighed and turned to leave.
Little Yongle once again came to the courtyard, looking at the flowers and grasses all over the courtyard have spring, some have sent out new buds, some have drawn out branches, some have even already borne flower buds, his mood could not help but leap up, and ran towards the main door of Hui Zhang Hall.
"Wait, Princess, where are you going, Princess?" And so there was that opening scene.
Little Yongle actually wanted to go to Longcui Garden, she hated that she could not put all the spring scenery in the palace in her eyes at this time.
Out of the Fai Zhang Hall to the west and then north to reach the Long Cui Garden, because this Long Cui Garden is actually sandwiched between the Hall of Hanyang Zhang and Chen Guang Hall at the end of the northern tunnel.
Yongle to go to Long Cuiyuan natural first through the Cinnabar Hall, this Cinnabar Hall has not been inhabited earlier, Yongle see now there is someone in front of the door guard, then asked: "Who lives here?"
The two maidservants replied, "Some days ago the Emperor chose many more concubines to enter the palace, and the one living here now is Chen Chenghua."
Yongle let out an "oh" and walked around the door of the temple, heading directly to the northern tunnel.
Although Yongle for the palace of the only one princess, but Wen Jieyu shall not be favored, Yongle is often ten days and a half months to see the father once. Although she is young, she is the eldest daughter of the emperor, but also understand that they are only a concubine's identity, and their mother consort shall not be favored, so the emperor has chosen a lot of concubines thing is not on the mind.
The hall door facing south, Yongle will not pass by the hall, but the hall of begonias within the hall is extended to the wall, the string of pink petals pressed to the branches are low down. This time of the year if you say that the flower is blooming should belong to the begonias, not to mention the hundred years of begonias moved from Longcui Garden.
Yongle's eyes can't help but be attracted, his feet also disobediently circled out of the tunnel, straight to the direction of the Hall of Containing Zhang.
"Princess! That's the Hall of Containing Zhang, not the Garden of Long Cui!" The maidservant behind her reminded.
Yongle which cares about the Hall of Containing Zhang, or Longcui Garden, where there is spring color she will go where.
Containing chapter of the front yard of the courtyard is not big, and planted more than ten hundred years of begonias, it seems that the space is more narrow, but this is because of the narrowness of the courtyard is full of spring color, the bunch of pink petals beautiful people can not move away from the eye. Yongle eyes only flowers, simply do not see the guard at the door of the CuiGeng, ChangYong two big living people, ran straight into.
Even if Cui Geng and Chang Yong had no eyes to see, they would have known that the little doll with the pink face in front of them was the only ancestor in the Palace of Daye, and how could they have dared to stop them in such a capacity?
Yongle into the courtyard, they went straight to a begonia before, but the begonia has been a hundred years old, grow old high, Yongle jumped feet enough to reach, or can not reach.
Yuan Xi is taking a nap, Yongle in the courtyard this toss, Chang Yong and Cui more really afraid of Hu Chenghua will be woken up, but they also do not dare to the Princess of the expulsion order, so they can only so staring dry.
Yongle jumped and jumped and jumped, but he just couldn't reach it. Oops! There was a stone table here! Yongle's eyes suddenly sparkled with excitement, and she climbed onto the stone bench first, ready to jump onto the stone table!
"Oops! I can't do that! My little ancestor!" Cui Geng and Chang Yong instantly guessed Yongle's intention, but could not put out their hands to embrace each other, so they anxiously shouted out at once, "You two dull people! Why are you still standing? Why don't you hug the princess down!"
The two slave girls, who were scared silly, then remembered that they should carry the princess down from the stone bench.
"I don't want it! I don't want it!" As soon as Yongle's behavior was stopped, he cried out in displeasure.
At this time Yuan Xi in the warmth of the closure of the pavilion to recuperate, the west warmth of the window is facing the courtyard, inside the house outside only a window, the window is used to be oil paper paste, not much sound isolation.
When Yuan Xi heard someone making noise in the courtyard, he leisurely opened his eyes and asked, "Who's out there?"
"Back to Chenghua, it's Princess Yongle." Qian Yun said in a noisy manner.
"How did she get here?"
"The slave girl doesn't know either." Qian Yun said back.
Yuan Xi looked at the room and saw that Qian Yun was the only one in the room, so he said, "Where is Qian Lan?"
"She went to the courtyard, thinking she must have asked the princess to leave."
"Since I'm awake, it's just a matter of time! Come with me and ask why!" Yuan Xi said as he got off the couch and went outside the palace.
"Nuns and lackeys pay their respects to Cheng Hua!" When the crowd of lackeys saw Yuan Xi appear in the courtyard, they all paid their respects.
Yongle was rubbing her eyes at this time, crying until she couldn't catch her breath, and when she saw someone say that Hu Chenghua had come, she stopped crying, took her hands off her eyes, and carefully scrutinized Yuan Xi's appearance.
That powder ball like face pear blossom with rain, that red dress under the small one, combed two small drums, to the New Year's Eve doll on the New Year's Eve, cute to the extreme, Yuan Xi see Yongle that cute and serious look, can not help but poof laugh.
Yongle saw Yuan Xi laugh and poofed a laugh of her own.
This thing called fate, sometimes it was so wonderful, Yuan Xi liked her and she didn't hate Yuan Xi.
In order to be able to make Yongle look at herself evenly, Yuan Xi squatted down and asked softly, "Why are you crying?"
Yongle's exasperated little hand pointed at Chang Yong and Cui Geng and said, "They won't let me pick the flowers."
Chang Yong and Cui more which can afford the accusation of the eldest princess, Yongle this said, the two directly kneeling road in front of Yuan Xi, hastily defend themselves, "Cheng Hua, it's not like that. Princess just wanted to stand on the stone table to pick flowers, the lackeys were afraid of danger!"
Yuan Xi of course believe Chang Yong and Cui more words, not to mention that they are just a lackey, even the palace concubines do not dare to casually upset the only princess. Yuan Xi then said: "Princess is not angry anymore, okay! Then let them pick flowers for you to make amends and forgive them, okay?"
"Good!" Yongle nodded solemnly.
So Cui more, Chang Yong bounced a few finally folded a few branches of begonias down. Yuan Xi pulled Yongle's little hand to the begonias, earnestly taught: "You see they are so high and still need to jump, the Princess stood on the stone table sea is not as high as the two of them, may be able to reach?"
"Can't reach it!" Wingnut replied.
"It doesn't matter, the princess can't reach it herself, just let the bystanders help." Yuan Xi said and handed over the plucked begonia branch to Yongle's hand, Yongle happily spun around, that cherry red coat fluttered under the flowers, Yongle looked like a butterfly. Yuan Xi suddenly thought of something, will fold down the begonia branch into a wreath mold, put on Yongle's head, smile and ask: "like it?"
"Love it!" Yongle replied, "Thank you!" Yongle suddenly realized that he still didn't know how to address the person he saw in front of him, so he looked to the two palace maids on his side, and the two palace maids weren't stupid to the extreme, so they said, "This is Hu Chenghua!"
"Many thanks to Empress Hu!" Yongle shouted sweetly.
This day Yongle stayed for a long time in the Hall of Containing Zhang, she had a great time, Yuan Xi was also very happy, this day even Yuan Xi she was the happiest day since she entered the palace until now.