The Queen's Beggar's Wife

This first snowfall lasted for three days and three nights.In the early morning of the fourth day, the snow stopped.

Outside the Kunning Palace, Chu Yueyin sent Yu Wenhua to the morning court.Before getting on the chariot, Yu Wenhua turned around and gave Chu Yueyin a hug, and whispered in her ear: "After paying my mother's greetings today, let Zhang Qing send you to Donghua Gate, and I will take you out of the palace to meet someone. Don't take Yinqiao, Zixia and the others with you."

"Uh, leaving the palace?" Chu Yueyin raised her head in surprise.Yu Wenhua suddenly mentioned the matter of going out of the palace, which made her feel very surprised, and she was not psychologically prepared at all.

"Don't want to go?" Yu Wenhua let go of Chu Yueyin, and gathered the cloak around her to make her warmer.

"Think." Chu Yueyin nodded quickly, fearing that Yu Wenhua would change her mind and not take her out of the palace, then asked suspiciously, "Who do you want to bring me to see?"

She doesn't have any friends outside the palace, and the only people she knows besides Chu Huan and his wife and the servants in Chu's mansion are Wen Hui and Beiming Yu, who can't see the end of the dragon.The people Yu Wenhua brought her to meet would definitely not be Wenhui and Beimingyu.And if it was Chu Huan and his wife, he could call them into the palace to have an audience.

"You'll know when you get there." Yu Wenhua laughed, deliberately keeping a sense of mystery, turned around and got into the chariot, and walked away.

Chu Yueyin stood there for a while, until the chariot drove away, then slowly turned around and went back.

In the courtyard of Kunning Palace, the snow on the bluestone road has been swept away by the early risers.White snow piled up at the foot of the trees by the road, and crystal icicles hung on the branches.Chu Yueyin stood in the courtyard watching the snow scene for a while, then was urged by Yinqiao to go back to the bedroom.

"Miss, it's colder when the snow is melting than when it's snowing. You've been standing outside for a long time, and you'll catch cold easily." Yinqiao chattered, while holding the silver charcoal in the furnace I put some into the hand stove and let Chu Yueyin hold it.

The door of the palace creaked and was pushed open from the outside.Zixia walked in carrying a food box, took out a large bowl from the food box, opened the lid, and inside was corn lily fish porridge.

A burst of porridge fragrance wafted into Chu Yueyin's nose.She suddenly felt a little hungry.

"It smells so good!" Chu Yueyin took the spoon from Zixia's hand, stirred it lightly, put a spoonful into her mouth, and couldn't help admiring, "It tastes so good! Chef Zhang is very good at his craft."

"That's right, he is the cook personally selected by the emperor to send to Kunning Palace. In the entire palace, except for the Empress Dowager, only the Empress Dowager is treated like this." Zixia was a little proud.

Chu Yueyin looked at Zixia, exchanged glances with Yinqiao, smiled and shook her head.

"Zi Xia, go and invite Aunt Jianing over here, I have something to tell her."

"Yes!" Zixia backed away.

"Miss, are you going to avoid paying your respects again today? Are you going to Mr. Huangfu's side again?" Yin Qiao asked uneasily.My young lady is the empress, and she is deeply favored by the emperor. She always goes to the Yihexuan, and it is not good to attract criticism from others. The young lady should avoid suspicion.

"After I have paid the Empress Dowager a greeting, I will leave the palace with the Emperor." Chu Yueyin was not aware of Yinqiao's concerns, but she couldn't help herself, both because of the agreement she signed with Yu Wenhua, and because of her own heart.

"Going out of the palace? Where are you going? Are you going back to the Chu Mansion?" Yinqiao asked three questions in succession.

"The emperor didn't say anything. Also, the emperor explained that you and Zixia stay in the palace and don't need to go out with me."

"Ah? Alas!" Yinqiao was discouraged all of a sudden.Originally, I thought that I could go back to the Chu Mansion to meet my good sisters, even if I didn't go back to the Chu Mansion, I could still stroll around the streets.

"Yinqiao, what do you like, I will help you buy it." Chu Yueyin didn't know if she would have the time and opportunity to buy something, but seeing Yinqiao's disappointed look, she couldn't bear it, so she asked.

"I don't have anything I particularly like. If Miss really wants to buy it, I can buy a few boxes of Baozhitang's rouge water powder for my servant."

"Okay!" Chu Yueyin readily agreed.She suddenly thought of something, and asked Yinqiao, "Do you know how to find Beiming Yu?"

"Miss wants to find Miss Beiming?" Yin Qiao felt strange, didn't Miss refuse to bring Miss Beiming into the palace, why did she take the initiative to ask her today.

"Yes. Is there a way for you to contact her?" Chu Yueyin nodded.Beimingyu helped her, she should at least say thank you to her.

Yinqiao thought for a while, took out a copper sign from her pocket, and handed it to Chu Yueyin.

"Miss Beiming said that if you want to find her, you can take this bronze medal to the shopkeeper of Gu's Clothing Shop in Tianjie, and just make an appointment with the time and place."

Chu Yueyin looked at the bronze plaque, the word You Ming was engraved on the front, and a cloud was engraved on the back.She didn't know Jianghu, and didn't know that this bronze medal was a token of the famous sect of Youming Sect, and Beiming Yu was the leader of Youming Sect.

Chu Yueyin carefully put the bronze medal into the brocade bag.When Aunt Jianing arrived, she ordered her to send a message to the masters of the palaces, and the matter of asking for peace will be omitted today.He also asked Zixia to go to the Yihexuan, and said that the empress could not go to the Yihexuan to learn the piano as promised, please forgive me, Mr. Huangfu.

After arranging everything, Chu Yueyin went out and boarded the phoenix chariot, and went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to greet the Queen Mother Zhao.Not wanting someone to arrive earlier than her, when Chu Yueyin walked into the front hall, Concubine Min and Prince An Yuwenjun were chatting with Queen Mother Zhao.Thinking about it, it is reasonable for An to come back to the palace with her mother and concubine to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.

After seeing the ceremony, Chu Yueyin sat down and listened quietly for a while, and heard that they were chatting about Yu Wenjun's heroic deeds in chasing down the bandits.Hearing the highlights, Chu Yueyin couldn't help nodding and smiling, thinking that King An's appearance was extraordinary and elegant, more like a wit than a general, but he never thought that he could take the lead and be brave when facing off against the enemy.

Yu Wenjun's eyes glanced at Chu Yueyin inadvertently, and seeing her turn her eyes and smile, he couldn't help but think of some rumors he had heard, how many of them were true, and how many were rumors?

After sitting for another stick of incense, Chu Yueyin reckoned that Yu Wenhua had already left the morning court, so she got up to bid farewell to Empress Dowager Zhao, Concubine Min and King An, and left the Palace of Compassion.

Chu Yueyin asked Yinqiao and all the guards and maids to return to Kunning Palace first, and only Zhang Qing followed.When she got on the phoenix chariot, Zhang Qing sat beside the coachman and ordered him to drive to Donghua Gate quickly.

Chu Yueyin took off the palace gown with red embroidered phoenix and beads inlaid on her body, and put on an elegant plain colored thick brocade robe, and fastened the snow-white sable fur cape again.Today, she specially let Yin Qiao tie up a simple bun. At this time, she took off the beaded wings phoenix golden step and the east bead earrings, and replaced them with green emerald bead-encrusted hairpins and green emerald drop bead earrings.At this time, she is elegant and noble, more like a lady than a queen of a country.