C316 Chalcedony (V) (2/2)
She was sent to Mu Fengchai's side by Aunt Zhong because Mu Rousang had dragged her own sister-in-law out of the palace to request for Princess Huaiqing's help.
”Auntie, you're worrying too much.” Auntie Zhong was alone. She felt at ease to be able to enter the palace once more and stay there for a longer period of time.
After staying in the palace for so long, she was very afraid of leaving. She did not know what she could do after leaving the palace.
Apart from serving people!
Therefore, Aunt Zhong readily accepted such an arrangement.
”This is my duty.” Aunt Zhong was not dissatisfied because Mu Fengchai's family background was too weak.
After staying in the palace for so many years, she naturally knew that some things could not be seen on the surface. For example, taking her out of the palace for a walk, and finally accompanying this little girl in front of her into the palace.
”Lady need not worry too much. Even if you come, you will have to take care of yourself. Aren't there many living people in the palace?”
Aunt Zhong's words comforted the anxious Mu Fengchai.
She sat in the carriage and turned her head to the back. She raised the curtain of the carriage behind her and saw a carriage of a lower grade than her own. It was all a blue carriage.
Be it to enrich the harem or to be washed off as a palace maid, in short, she was very different from a girl from an aristocratic family like Mu Fengchai.
Women from aristocratic families like Mu Fengchai would naturally go home and choose a good son-in-law.
Under this abnormally heavy atmosphere, the heavy palace doors finally let out a muffled sound and were slowly pushed open by a few young eunuchs.
”The auspicious hour has arrived!”
A row of eunuchs were waiting at the entrance of the palace. As the doors of the palace opened, they shouted one after another. Everyone in the plaza could hear them.
The auspicious hour has arrived?
Mu Fengchai's small hands nervously twisted the handkerchief, forcing herself to breathe deeply. This was something her cousin had taught her, allowing her to quickly calm down.
”A phoenix hairpin!”
Mu Yiyang's voice sounded from outside the carriage. Today, after entering the palace, she was escorted by his own brother to the entrance by the palace gates.
”Brother!”
Mu Yiyang's voice was gloomy, it was obvious that he did not think that Mu Fengchai entering the palace was a good thing, it was just that everyone could not force her.
”It's not too late for you to regret. Sister Sang said that as long as you regret it, she will personally come to take you away.”
Mu Fengchai knew that if she really regretted it, her elder cousin would tear off all decorum with that man who was so high up in the palace and would also forcefully take her away.
Only, she was no longer that naive and carefree Mu Fengchai.
Her elder brothers and sisters were still working hard for the Mu Clan, so how could she be so selfish?
”Brother, I don't regret it, I must be selected!”
In the end, Mu Yiyang sighed deeply, and said: ”Since the palace doors are already open, it's not convenient for me to stay here any longer. This time, when I enter the palace, I'll have to depend on Aunt Zhong to take care of my sister.”
Aunt Zhong was a kind person, and she could hear the eunuchs urging the court ladies to leave.
Even if Mu Yiyang had thousands of words to say, at the very moment he did so, he condensed into two words, ”Take care!”
Yes, take care.
With this parting, it was unknown when the two siblings would meet again.
Mu Fengchai's tears rolled in her eyes, forcefully forcing them back.
Auntie Zhong had taught her that tears were not allowed to flow in the palace. If anyone saw her, they would think she was unlucky and wear small shoes.
So, Mu Fengchai raised her head, and took deep breaths to calm herself. Only then did she answer: ”Big brother, I promise, and tell my older cousin and older cousin not to worry, if I really get elected, my older cousin will let her take a look at me if he finds the time to walk around the palace. Also, my mother is not a person that can control her emotions. In the end, he's still our blood brother. Big brother and big brother are a little thinner, it's better to have more brothers to help them out. ”
Mu Yiyang felt his heart clogging up when he heard it. Previously, the little sister who was pampered by them in their hands, when did she grow up?
”En!” He answered very depressingly, very sorrowfully, very sorrowfully, and also somewhat dejectedly and sorrowfully.
Under the insistent urging of the young eunuch, Mu Yiyang turned his head back three times and left.
”Miss, the Young Master has already walked far away.” As for Xia Lu and the other two, they had already entered the palace first and walked Yang Zixuan's path. Of course, this matter had already been cleared up for the current Emperor, and it was only to hide it from the others.
Mu Fengchai had not combed her bangs when she woke up this morning. She remembered that her cousin had said that the rafters that stuck out their heads would rot first.
Thus, she had to add a layer of foil to the outside …
Actually, the emperors of the Great Zhou didn't force the ladies of aristocratic families to enter the palace. However, there would always be many people who hoped to rely on their daughters to bring glory to their families once again.
Mu Fengchai's clothes today were not particularly fancy, it was just that she had grown silver threads from the bottom of the Purple Vine, and also made a beautiful bun. She only had put a pearl golden butterfly hairpin on top of it, stacked the hibiscus silk flowers together, and used a few single powder pearls to decorate her black hair.