Spring Forest Evening

At this moment, there were people coming and going around him, and Zhou Heng was startled when he heard Mrs. Hu Guogong say that. He didn't move, but he subconsciously turned his head and wanted to look for Shen Fu to look at him again.

Turning around, I saw that although there were many walking people between the two of them, Shen Fu had already stared at him and walked over quickly, fearing that the Duke Hu and his wife were about to leave, he yelled loudly:

"Uncle, aunt, please stay behind!"

With this shout, several people around him looked over. Zhou Heng quickly lowered his head and stood behind Mrs. Hu Guogong, pretending to be a maid, and heard Hu Guogong say in his ear:

"Hey, wait a minute, Ah Fu is here!"

These words should have been said to Mrs. Protector, Zhou Heng raised his head slightly again, just in time to see Shen Fu glanced at him, then quickly moved his eyes away and bowed to the two people in front of him, and said in a low voice:

"Thank you, Uncle and Aunt, I have already written the words in the letter, so I will thank you both!"

write in a letter?Zhou Heng vaguely heard such a sentence, and was muttering to himself why Shen Fu wrote a letter. The Huguogong laughed loudly, patted Shen Fu on the shoulder and said:

"You child, you are so polite with uncle, isn't your business our business? Don't worry, your aunt and I will live up to our trust!"

"Oh, why are you laughing so loudly?" Mrs. Hu Guogong scolded her husband, then turned her head and said softly to Shen Fu: "Don't worry, if your uncle and I can't handle such a small matter—"

"That's it!" This time, the Duke Protector's voice was lowered a lot, but he was still smiling very relaxedly: "Don't worry! It's getting late, you are different from us, you should go in early, maybe the emperor will still find you. You talk."

Speaking of this, his voice suddenly dropped again, and Zhou Heng could only faintly hear the sentence:

"Everything is prepared, there will be no problem, let's go!"

He hurriedly looked up at Shen Fu again, seeing that he also glanced at him in a hurry, he smiled slightly, and said silently with his mouth:

"Do not worry!"

Shen Fu seemed to understand, and smiled back, then turned around and strode away.

On this side, Mrs. Protector, who turned around, looked at Zhou Heng up and down again, and saw that she was still looking at Shen Fu's back, and her face became a bit complicated. She endured her emotions, but in the end she was not salty. Not lightly ordered:

"Let's go!"

Zhou Heng quickly lowered his head, pretending to be obedient, and followed her towards the gate of the palace.

There were quite a lot of people, but luckily the Huguogong and his wife were not of ordinary identities. Later, several guards who were supposed to be from their mansion came. With them guarding around, they arrived at the gate of the palace soon.

Based on Zhou Heng's experience of going to the Forbidden City and many other museums in the 21st century, it doesn't feel new to enter the palace now. In addition, the palace gate he entered at this moment does not look like the main entrance, so he still kept his composure and bowed his head. The appearance of the head followed obediently, which provoked Mrs. Protector to secretly poke her husband with her elbow, and winked at the back, which meant that she couldn't see the girl that her nephew liked, although The appearance is not outstanding, but the concentration is quite good. It is the first time entering the palace that he can hold his breath so calmly.

The Lord Protector gave her a somewhat helpless look. He didn't want to continue on this topic, but seeing the old wife's stare, he could only lean over and whisper to her:

"Who is Ah Fu, not to mention the Zhou family... Even the daughter of the Tao family back then, wasn't she a girl with outstanding talent and appearance that was known all over the capital? After you, didn’t you still not like it? Now that he’s taken a fancy to this one, he still says... Ahem, there are naturally merits, Ma’am, don’t you think so?”

After finishing speaking, I looked back at the girl who followed behind with her head bowed. Fortunately, there were noisy people around, so I shouldn't be able to hear it.

Mrs. Protector also looked back following her husband's eyes, curled her lips a little unwillingly, and leaned over to reply in a low voice:

"But our Ah Fu is a talented person, and you are a prince. Although I told us about those things last time, but now I have found such a... In my heart, it is not very good after all. Sigh, I don't know what Ah Yi is about this matter. manner."

"Oh, you are still talking more and more vigorously! Now is not the time to say these things," the Duke of Huguo laughed, and signaled his wife to get ready to enter the palace gate: "Anyway, let's do what Ah Fu explained. !"

Zhou Heng didn't pay attention to what the two said. In fact, there was a lot of people around, and he had to pay attention to observe the situation at the gate of the palace, so he didn't care about the appearance of the couple in front of them together.

The interrogation by the imperial guards at the gate of the palace is not strict, it feels a bit like watching people order food, and it is even more lenient for the female relatives and the maids who follow them. Zhou Heng looked at it, and there should be at least several such palace banquets in a year. Presumably, the people attending the banquet were all familiar faces, so the security check requirements were relaxed.

Thinking of this, Zhou Heng felt relaxed. Sure enough, he followed the Huguogong and his wife through the gate of the palace smoothly. The Duke of the State explained that it was the servant girl in his wife's house who was accompanying him and let him go. I don't know if it was the one arranged by Shen Fu before.

After that, he followed the two of them along the high and low palace walls. Zhou Heng kept in mind Shen Fu and Shen Yi's previous instructions, and tried his best to keep his head down and not casually look around. Anyway, there were guards along the way. The army has one post at five steps and one sentry at ten steps. Everyone also turned away from the casualness at the gate of the palace and seldom spoke.

In this way, after walking for a long and quiet way, there were faint laughter and laughter in the distance, and it seemed that we were approaching Taiye Lake.

Sure enough, when the road ahead turned around, an open field appeared, and then he swept away the monotony of the palace wall before, and flowers and trees began to appear on the side of the road. Zhou Heng raised his head slightly, and saw a place under the slope in front of him. water surface.

Although she was mentally prepared, the size of the Taiye Pool was beyond her expectations. She never expected that there would be such a large water surface in the palace. Although it could not compare with the area of ​​the lakes like Hangzhou West Lake that I had been to before, But if the female family members in the palace want to take a walk around the lake, it must be quite tiring, and they will not be able to get down for half an hour.

I don’t know where the people from Zhongnan Road came from, have they arrived now, and where are they hiding? It looks like there are trees planted by the lake, especially on the other side, it seems that the vegetation is flourishing, but there should be Imperial Guards too. Watch it... Zhou Heng walked down the slope with the Huguogong and his wife while looking at the rather open water and thinking.

"Oh, I said, Mr. Guo, look at the road under your feet, there are many people today!" Zhou Heng suddenly woke up with a meaningful sentence from Mrs. Hu Guogong, and hurriedly followed them with his head down again.

At this moment, the three of them had already walked not far from the water's edge, and the number of people gradually increased. The Huguogong and his wife met many acquaintances, greeted them all the way, and walked for a while, before they finally met a eunuch. Guided by them, they found the table that belonged to them.

At this time, the sun had already begun to slant to the west, the water surface of Taiye Pond was glowing with golden light, and lanterns began to be lit on the trees next to it one after another, and the sound of silk and bamboo came from nowhere, accompanied by laughter and laughter around, it was because of After walking a long distance just now, he sweated a lot, and now he had to stand behind Mrs. Protector because of his identity as a maid. Zhou Heng also felt a little emotional. He felt that the scene in front of him was pretty good, but it was a little bit Little regret:

"Unfortunately, I don't know where Ah Fu is sitting at the moment..."