Spring Forest Evening

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is cool in the morning and evening. It is best to place the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet by the water, so now only half-open tents are set up by the Taiye Pool. Like a movable gazebo, palace lanterns were hung in each tent, and incense was burned underneath. There was a big round table in each tent, and everyone took their seats following the guidance of the eunuch. They were in the palace, so no matter if they got along or not, they would exchange greetings with each other, and for a while there were laughter and laughter everywhere.

Zhou Heng took advantage of the fact that everyone around her was busy walking around to communicate and greet people, and boldly took a look quietly. Although she saw the ancient version of the top social circle, she couldn't move around freely now, and Taiyechi The side is decorated quite festively at the moment, with a lot of big red lanterns hung up and down everywhere, which also blocked a lot of sight, so the neck was a little sore from looking at it, but Shen Fu was still not seen.

Instead, I saw a large painting boat parked by the water in the distance. I thought it was the place where the emperor would take his sons up to perform sacrificial activities. Not far from the painting boat, there was a big pavilion that looked very prominent. It was temporarily built by the water, and it should be the place where the Emperor and the Empress Dowager waited for dinner. Unfortunately, the inside of the place looks faint, and it feels like it is surrounded by some kind of translucent fabric, which can't be seen clearly.

The emperor wants to keep a sense of mystery?Zhou Heng pouted in his heart, but to be honest, it was the first time he saw the live-action version of the emperor, and he was quite curious.

He thought again, maybe Shen Fu was there too, after all he was a prince, and on the surface the emperor treated him pretty well, so he had to give him a good seat.

Thinking of this, Zhou Heng gave up the idea of ​​looking for Shen Fu, and began to lower his head and think about the next thing in peace.

The setting sun has gradually become feeble, leaving only the red glow of the half sky, accompanied by the evening breeze, it can be regarded as a beautiful scene on a good day.

But then, Mrs. Huguo, who had a good conversation with another middle-aged woman with the same round face and plump face, suddenly waved her hands excitedly, and "accidentally" knocked over a cup of tea on the table It was too late to dodge, but the teacup did not roll off the table, but the tea flowed down the table onto her skirt.

"Oops!" The two people sitting opposite each other uttered exclamations, and a palace lady in her early twenties who was standing in front of their tent hurried over, and when she saw Mrs. Feeling embarrassed, he smiled and said:

"I also ask the Duke's wife and the slaves to tidy up."

"Then I'll take care of you!" The Duke's wife said politely, then turned her head and asked Zhou Heng behind her to follow up, and said hello to the lady, and the three of them got out of the tent and went out.

As soon as they left, the two walked to a palace room slightly away from the palace banquet under the leadership of the palace lady. There were two imperial guards guarding outside the palace, but seeing the three of them When they came over, they just looked at them twice and then let them go by maintaining the original posture of looking ahead.

After entering, Zhou Heng took a look. It was a living room-like place, with a soft white gauze hanging at the end.

There were two people standing in the room, the older one seemed to be about the same age as Nanny Shen, and the younger one was about the same age as Chun Yu. Seeing the three of them coming in, the old nanny made a gesture of invitation to the veil, Said softly:

"Girl, go in, the empress and the fourth prince will be inside."

"Go, we'll wait here." Mrs. Protector also said softly, and nodded to the nanny again.

Zhou Heng responded and went inside.

Parting the veil and entering, it turned out that the inside was a place for people to rest, and there was also an Arhat bed, and a child was lying on the bed right now, sleeping soundly with his belly bulging.

Beside the bed were two young women sitting and standing.

Zhou Heng took a quick look. The young woman sitting looked pretty, but she was too thin, and she was wearing a sky blue dress that didn't match her dark complexion, so she looked a bit old-fashioned.

The standing one is rather plump, and his skin looks white.

However, there are quite differences in the dresses of the two people. The clothes of the sitting young woman look pretty good, and the pearl hairpin on her hair looks luxurious. From the perspective of society after years of experience, this person should be the concubine of the fourth prince.

Sure enough, the young woman in blue stood up and waved to her with a smile:

"Come here!"

All right, it seems that Concubine Liang was right, so Zhou Heng stood still and bowed to her first:

"I've seen my lady!"

As soon as the words fell, Concubine Liang came over and held Zhou Heng's hand, her voice sounded very affectionate:

"At this time, we don't have to worry too much about etiquette, come on!"

Zhou Heng was thinking to himself that Shen Fu should not reveal his true identity to the imperial concubine, but Concubine Liang had already dragged her body to the Arhat's bed. The palace lantern on the head leaned over to look carefully at the little figure on the bed.

To be honest, he is just a kid who is about the same age as Shen Yi's youngest son, Ahua, and he probably followed his mother. He doesn't look fat, but he should look pretty good, so he politely said boasted:

"The fourth prince looks so cute!"

These words made Concubine Liang frowned almost invisibly, but she quickly responded with a sentence:

"Isn't it? Children of this age are the cutest! Alas, it's a pity that I have to trouble you tonight. Of course, I still hope that after the palace banquet is over, you can go out of the palace with the Duke and Madam on your own." .”

After saying this, it reminded Zhou Heng of what he was going to do now, so he looked up, and sure enough, there was a screen behind the Arhat bed.

Zhou Heng replied, "This is what a servant girl should do." After that, he stopped talking nonsense and asked directly:

"I, oh, the servant's water tank should be inside, right?"

After getting an affirmative answer, the plump young woman next to her smiled and said:

"Let the servant wait for the girl to change her clothes!"

"No, no, no!" Zhou Heng was not used to being served like this, so he shook his hand and hurried behind the screen.

It took a lot of effort and even sweated a bit afterwards, and finally panted heavily to wear the water on the body, "Well, fortunately, it's a bit cool now!" Wiped the sweat from his forehead and put it on outside Zhou Heng stepped out of the screen.

"What a thankful lady!" The plump young woman bowed to Zhou Heng, and Concubine Liang stepped forward to personally pick up the handkerchief and wiped the sweat from her forehead, then looked back at the fourth prince on the bed and sighed:

"I also hope that the emperor can sleep peacefully until dawn!"

"Mother, it's getting late!" At this moment, the voice of the nanny came from outside.