: There is nothing important except death

Author: Bai Xiaoyuan

: There is nothing important except death

Three days later, Sheng Xie came to the door and personally took Shen Lingxi into the palace.

Also following her into the palace were Xue Tuan and King An.

That night, Prince An followed Shen Lingxi when he came out of Prince An's Mansion.

"I have nowhere to go, I just want to be with Xue Tuan."

"Meow."

Shen Lingxi was very curious, "Don't you, Your Highness, want to see the Emperor and the Queen?"

The young man lowered his head, "My biological mother is the late Concubine Lian, and she was not close to the Queen. As for my father... he must not want to see me, so forget it."

Shen Lingxi only heard about the royal affairs and knew very little about them.

After hearing this, he didn't want to ask any more questions, so he went with him to play with Xue Tuan.

Hearing that Shen Lingxi was going to the palace, King An hesitated for a long time before deciding to go with her.

Except for the Shen family and Mu Huaian, the separation of Shen Lingxi and Shen Ji was never mentioned to anyone else.

If she didn't mention it, Shen Ji wouldn't mention it since it was written like that in the divorce letter.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, she is still the legitimate daughter of the Xuanping Hou Mansion.

He was the "poor little" who was treated favorably and poorly by Shen Ji.

When Empress Dowager Dou was bored in the palace, she would always send the young eunuch to the market to find some jokes and tell them to her.

Therefore, jokes such as "There is an evil spirit in the well of Taoist Master Miaoling", "Taoist Master Miaoling comes from a famous family and is the real daughter of Xuanpinghou Mansion", and "Xuanpinghou Li Daitao marries two daughters" are just like the popular excerpts of the opera The same thing happened one after another, and the little eunuch kept bringing him back to tell the story with great emotion.

Not to mention the Queen Mother, even the maids who sweep the Shoukang Palace are familiar with it.

As a result, Shen Lingxi, a person involved in the anecdotes in the capital, was greeted by the palace attendants as soon as he entered the Shoukang Palace.

What's more, Sheng Xie was Chu Yan's personal bodyguard. He brought Shen Lingxi into the palace, which was no different from Chu Yan coming in person. The way the palace people looked at Shen Lingxi was a little different.

Xuetuan returned to Shoukang Palace and was jumping around with joy.

When You Qi saw Queen Mother Dou, he jumped up and threw himself into her arms.

Empress Dowager Dou knew nothing about this and was leaning on the couch with a sickly look on her face.

Seeing Shen Lingxi, although the Queen Mother did not appear very warm, she did not send her away quickly.

He gave her a seat and, in accordance with the previous practice when meeting girls from aristocratic families, asked her what she did at home on weekdays, what she did, and what her pastimes were.

Shen Lingxi had nothing to hide, so she told the truth openly, "I learned some work of burying people in a coffin shop when I was young. I also specialize in this on weekdays. I can also make paper bundles and shrouds. Sometimes I also follow Jin Xian. The apprentices and nephews were watching, drawing talisman and doing rituals."

The palace attendants on duty looked at her and fell silent.

Good guy, this is a multi-specialty skill, and it takes care of everything.

Queen Mother Dou sat up slightly, with nothing on her face, and asked her again, "Have you read a book? How many words do you know?"

"When I was in the village, I was fortunate to have the pity of many elders and read books." Shen Lingxi thought of the days when she heard those dead souls who were still eager to learn after death recite all kinds of classics in her ears. This can be considered...reading it.

She paused, "I usually make some money by writing elegiac couplets for others. I can write well, but my calligraphy is not good."

Everyone was silent again.

If you can write elegiac couplets for others, but you are still "not good at it", then you are really too humble.

This girl is really inseparable from everything.

To be disrespectful, this girl doesn't look like she's here to embroider the Queen Mother's shroud, but she seems to be here to pay her last respects.

It’s almost time to catch up with the one-stop service.

Empress Dowager Dou looked a little ugly and waved her hand, "You go down first and rest in the east hall. Let Xiaodouzi take you around. I will think about the pattern of the shroud and talk to you some other time."

Shen Lingxi has long been accustomed to such reactions.

People in the world don't shy away from life, but they all shy away from death. This is human nature.

She respectfully agreed, and was taken down by a young eunuch with a sharp camera to place her there.

After she left, Queen Mother Dou finally couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing.

"Liu Lang has really found a treasure for the Ai family." Empress Dowager Dou smiled happily, her sickly look full of energy, "The Ai family has not met such an interesting person for a long time."

Sheng Xie did not expect the Queen Mother to react like this, and a look of surprise flashed across her face.

The Queen Mother looked at him and asked, "Liu Lang asked you to bring this little girl, but do you have anything to say to the Ai family?"

Sheng Xie: "His Highness said that only Miss Shen can embroider the embroidery pattern that the empress wants. If she violates the empress's taboo, he will ask his subordinates to take her out of the palace, and his highness will find another embroidery pattern and embroidery pattern for the empress." Come, mother."

The Queen Mother raised her eyebrows, and naturally she could hear the protective meaning in her words.

The smile on his face became deeper.

"What's so taboo about this?" She glanced at everyone, "As the saying goes, 'There is no other big thing except death,' but what the little girl does, burying people in their final moments, isn't it a first-rate event? ?”

Although the words were spoken to Sheng Xie, they were also meant to slap the servants in the palace.

She is the most noble person in the harem. Since she thinks Shen Lingxi is good, then everyone in the palace cannot say that Shen Lingxi is not good.

The palace people secretly noted that Sheng Xie also looked slightly relieved and retreated to resume his life.

After he left, the Queen Mother told Li Jinwang, "The child looks too thin. Ask the kitchen to boil more soup and give her a supplement. Then she issued a decree for the Ai family to go to the Xuanping Marquis Mansion and confer Shen Lingxi the title of Shoukang." Lady Fengyi of the palace told Marquis Xuanping that there will be someone willing to love the child he does not want."

The female official Fengyi is the highest-ranking female official next to the Queen and the Queen Mother. From the fourth rank, all concubines below the imperial concubine are exempted from courtesy when they see them in the palace.

The Queen Mother gave Shen Lingxi the title of "Fengyi Female Official", not because she really wanted her to serve her everywhere, but because she wanted everyone in and outside the palace to know that Shen Lingxi was the person she protected.

Li Jinwang knew what to do, so he agreed with a smile and made arrangements.

*

Although Shen Lingxi was not present at what happened in the main hall, he knew clearly through King An's mouth.

King An sighed a little, "I used to be very afraid of the Queen's grandmother. Every time I came to Shoukang Palace, I would be trembling with fear. I was afraid that I would make a mistake and make the Queen's grandmother displeased. I didn't expect that she would be such a kind person."

These words gave Shen Lingxi some doubts.

"What kind of person the Queen Mother is, what she likes and dislikes, even if you don't know it, the palace servants who serve you should also know it. Couldn't no one mention you?"

King An shook his head.

"They said that the Empress Dowager was only the Empress Dowager, and the Dowager Empress was her biological grandmother. They were also afraid of the Imperial Grandmother. When I was young, they only advised me to play in the Imperial Grandmother's palace. I was not close to the Imperial Grandmother. As I grew older, I don’t even dare to get close to him.”

Shen Lingxi was thoughtful.

Although I am not the daughter of the Queen Mother, the concubine in Yutan Palace is just the sister of my late biological mother, Concubine Hui, and she cannot be regarded as Prince An's "grandmother".

When Shen Lingxi thought again that Yuzhu was from Yutan Palace, she couldn't help but become even more curious about this concubine...

The next update will be later, I’ll think about it again and watch it again in the evening.

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