Dingjiangshan

Shu Qiuyu stayed in the palace for ten days.

Over the years, the Shu family has always raised Shu Qiuyu as the future mother of the country, not to mention his talent, but also Shu Qiuyu's good vision and arrogance.

She entered the palace in the name of accompanying the Empress Dowager, so she really didn't think about other things, she stayed in Renshou Palace peacefully and rarely went out.Except for occasionally accompanying the queen mother to copy scriptures and do homework to worship the Buddha, she is like a transparent person. If the queen mother doesn't summon her, she won't wander around, let alone pay Ning Yan's greetings.

Shu Qinghui attached great importance to her entering the palace this time, and even brought her a small bag of golden melon seeds for her to reward the servants in the palace. However, since Shu Qiuyu entered the palace, she never walked out of the gate. The heavy bag of golden melon seeds was never used once.

It's just that she can still hold her breath, but there are people around her who are more anxious than her.

In the past few days, the two maidservants beside her often went out of the palace, and they left for more than an hour, and they didn't know what they were doing.

Shu Qiuyu had a plan in mind, so he seldom intervened, and most of them were tacitly perfunctory between master and servant.

But early in the morning, Gingko, one of Shu Qiuyu's maidservants, disappeared, leaving only Jijiao to serve in the hall.

Shu Qiuyu felt that something was abnormal, so she couldn't help asking: "Where's the ginkgo?"

"Going out of the palace." Ji Jiao didn't dare to hide it from Shu Qiuyu, and said, "It's the master who sent the message in, asking the servants to go outside to meet him, presumably to ask about the young lady's recent situation."

Shu Qiuyu knew that Ginkgo was often connected with her mother's family - she also knew that her current behavior of "just come and settle down" was not in line with what Shu Qinghui explained, and it was reasonable for Ginkgo to go to correspond.

So Shu Qiuyu could only pretend not to know, washed and tidied up as usual, had breakfast, stayed in the side hall of Renshou Palace, and continued to embroider her pair of phoenix wearing peonies.

Ginkgo didn't come back until after noon.

When she came back, Shu Qiuyu had just had lunch, and the guards were cleaning the table for her, packing the leftovers and dishes into food boxes and preparing to take them away.

Shu Qiuyu was sitting at the table, rinsing her mouth with rose water. From the corner of her eye, she saw Gingko coming in from the door, and she didn't speak, but just glanced at her indifferently.

Ginkgo was so heartbroken by her look, she quickly wiped her hands on her clothes, stepped forward to take the spittoon from the little maid's hand, and waited for Shu Qiuyu to rinse her mouth.

In front of the people in the palace, Shu Qiuyu didn't embarrass the big maid beside her, took the teacup from her hand, and took a sip.

After rinsing her mouth, Shu Qiuyu didn't stay long, got up and went into the house.

The half-embroidered picture she embroidered in the morning was still hanging on the frame, and it was only covered with a thin layer of white gauze to keep out dust.Shu Qiuyu went to wash her hands in the copper basin in the corner of the room, then sat back in front of the embroidery frame, lifted the white cloth covering it, and twisted the silver needles tied on the cloth.

She didn't say a word the whole time, and her expression was calm.But Ginkgo and Bellflower grew up with Shu Qiuyu, how can they not see that Shu Qiuyu is angry.

Ginkgo felt a little guilty about Shu Qiuyu's appearance, and quickly pulled Platycodon grandiflora from behind, and motioned her to say a few words for herself with her eyes.

Kikyo was troubled, and shook his head at her, meaning it was a little difficult.

"Miss." After the servants retreated, Gingko stepped forward bravely, took out a letter from her sleeve and handed it to Shu Qiuyu, and said in a low voice, "Master is outside asking about our situation."

Shu Qiuyu half bent over, was concentrating on embroidering phoenix eyes, when she heard this, she hummed lightly, but did not answer.

Ginkgo looked at Kikyo with a bitter face, then at Shu Qiuyu, knelt down beside her carefully, and placed the letter next to the silk thread she had arranged.

Shu Qiuyu glanced at the handwriting on the letter and found that it was written by Shu Qinghui himself.

Shu Qiuyu understood that in terms of rules, the entire Shu family had to listen to Shu Qinghui.Not to mention the two little maids, Ginkgo and Kikyo, even if Shu Qinghui sent a letter asking her to see her, she still couldn't see her.

But it's one thing to know, it's another to be upset.It's just that Shu Qiuyu didn't want to embarrass the little girl, so she sighed and started a conversation herself.

"What did father say to you?" Shu Qiuyu asked.

Seeing that she was willing to speak, Ginkgo breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Actually, it's nothing, I just asked about the girl's recent situation, but the question was a little detailed..."

The more Ginkgo said, the softer she was. The following words were really disrespectful to a daughter who had not left the court, so Ginkgo didn't dare to say them.

"It's asking if I have seen Your Majesty, and if I have done my filial piety in front of the Queen Mother, right?" Shu Qiuyu didn't have this taboo, and continued lightly: "Or ask more proactively, asking if I have taken the initiative to go to the Queen Mother?" Greetings to Your Majesty, did the Empress Dowager introduce me to Your Majesty, right?"

Afraid that she would get angry, Gingko carefully glanced at her face, and nodded hesitantly.

"I know what my father is worried about." Shu Qiuyu put down the needle as he spoke, took a silk handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his palms, and continued, "I also understand why my mother begged for the grace of entering the palace for me."

Shu Qiuyu's tone sounded a little indifferent, and Ji Jiao was startled when he heard it, and hurried over and knelt down on the other side of Shu Qiuyu, and said dryly, "Master is also thinking about the girl's future."

"It's for the future of the Shu family." Shu Qiuyu said.

The two little maids were taken aback, for fear that she would get into a corner because she couldn't think about it for a while, and felt that the family was going to trade her for a future.

But then, Shu Qiuyu said: "But my father did nothing wrong. I am also a member of the Shu family. I have a future in the Shu family before I can have a future in me. The Shu family is supporting me and supporting me. Sisters and brothers, if we don't think about our family, there will be no place for us in the future."

Ginkgo was so frightened by her pause that she didn't dare to breathe. Now that she was so sensible, she couldn't help but patted her chest, and then complained in fear: "Young lady is panting heavily when she speaks, it makes people's hearts thump."

"But father made a wrong decision." Shu Qiuyu said, "Your Majesty has no intentions of me."

Shu Qiuyu said this very firmly.

She was obviously talking about the love of her children, but she didn't feel shy at all, as if she was just saying an obvious fact.

What she said was so generous, Ginkgo was stunned when she heard it.

Kikyo doesn't like to hear such words, so she hastened to defend: "How could it be, girl, don't think so pessimistically, girl is so good, who in the world would not like it."

"That's right." Ginkgo came back to her senses, and quickly echoed: "The girl is talented and good looking, how could His Majesty not like it. Maybe it's because His Majesty is still young and doesn't know what love is like at all. After getting along with the girl for a long time , naturally you will like it.”

The more Ginkgo talked, the more she felt that what she said made sense: "Besides, what did the master say? His Majesty is just young and ignorant, and he is not happy that the courtiers are pushing him too hard, so he opposes the big marriage like this. It is not for the girl..."

Shu Qiuyu heard her words getting more and more outrageous, and couldn't help being frightened. He quickly patted her hand, and whispered: "Shut up, Your Majesty, you can arrange it?"

Only then did Ginkgo realize that this was inside the palace wall, and if it wasn't evenly secured, there would be ears on the other side of the wall. She was startled for a moment, and subconsciously covered her mouth.

"It's just..." Ginkgo was also aggrieved, and squeezed out a few words from her throat: "It's just, it's just that the master should be anxious. The girl was recruited into the palace, but her name was not right. A few days ago On the anniversary of the late emperor's death, there were banquets ahead, and the palace seemed to have forgotten the girl."

"The master also said that he obviously called the girl into the palace on purpose, how can he always be wronged like this." Ginkgo said: "Otherwise, when we get married in the future, how can we restrain the servants."

Shu Qiuyu sighed softly and said nothing.

The sixteenth day of the winter moon was the death anniversary of the first emperor, and it was also a big day in the palace. The queen mother had to leave the house after noon to go to the palace to worship and have a banquet.

It's just that the Empress Dowager didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional that day, and she never called Shu Qiuyu together, as if she had forgotten about such a person, and threw her in the palace for a whole day.

Shu Qiuyu was quite peaceful, staying inside the house without being summoned, and never went out all day.

Shu Qinghui is a courtier, sometimes he can't see things in the backyard clearly, but Shu Qiuyu can see clearly.Although the Empress Dowager summoned her into the palace, the name she used had nothing to do with Ning Yan.This is obviously just a hand in hand, if it is done, it will be good, and the queen can accept her favor in the future, but if Ning Yan just doesn't have this heart, the queen mother will not take this muddy water.

But Shu Qiuyu couldn't tell Shu Qinghui these words, her father never cared about the affairs of the backyard, and he looked down on these twists and turns.If she said so, Shu Qinghui would only feel that she was incompetent.

Shu Qiuyu took his gaze away from Ginkgo, looked around the house aimlessly, and finally landed on the stove under the window.

A small piece of flattened incense was baked on the stove. The milky white smoke did not disperse in the wind like ordinary incense. Instead, the smoke descended and flowed down along the groove carved by the craftsman, circling around the outer circle of the incense burner like flowing water. After a few weeks, it finally sank into the furnace shaft.

"There will be no big marriage." Shu Qiuyu looked back and said, "No matter how young your majesty is, he will not be too capricious in doing things. So he made it clear that he has no intentions for me, otherwise he wouldn't have ignored me for so many days."

Hearing what she said, Ginkgo lost her mind and asked, "Then...then why did His Majesty allow you to enter the palace? If His Majesty didn't like you, he should have blocked you when the Queen Mother called you into the palace."

This is also a question that Shu Qiuyu has been thinking about. Unlike Shu Qinghui's complacent attitude, Shu Qiuyu's perception of emotions is much more sensitive than his father. She has always felt that there is a reason for Ning Yan's reluctance to get married, but After all, she had never met Ning Yan before, so naturally she couldn't figure out where the reason came from.

"I don't know either." Shu Qiuyu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's mind is hard to guess, and neither can I."

"Then what should the girl do?" Kikyo asked: "If you don't want to send a letter to the master, just say it's really impossible, and persuade the master to forget it."

"Neither." Shu Qiuyu said.

"Oh, why can't do anything." Gingko immediately became anxious: "Then what should the girl do?"

"Because my father's goal is also my goal." Shu Qiuyu said: "Besides, although I don't know why His Majesty acquiesced in my entry into the palace, I think His Majesty has His Majesty's plan. This is a good thing, and it shows that His Majesty still has use for me place. If that’s the case, then we’ll just have to wait.”

"When will you wait?" Ginkgo whispered, "Is it possible that we have to wait forever?"

Kikyo at the side obviously agreed with Gingko's words, and nodded silently.

Shu Qiuyu herself also seemed a little embarrassed, she pursed her lips, pondered for a while, and finally made up her mind, and said in a low voice: "If there is no news on His Majesty's birthday, I will go and ask His Majesty... Whatever it is, there is a result."