Chapter 4 Enter the palace as you wish
Someone knocked on the door gently outside the door. Yao Guozhang felt that this conversation could only be clicked, so he motioned the people outside the door to come in.
Several maids took a few pieces of cloth and some precious jewelry and put them on the mahogany table in the house. Yao Yulu's eyes fell on these things. The dazzling beauty made her eyesight. These treasures had never been seen in the first 16 years of her life.
"This is what I prepared for you, and you also take these silvers with you. Although you are in Yao Mansion, the people of Yao Mansion must not lose their dignity outside."
This sounded strange and harsh, as if Yao Guozhang did not shy away from his indifference to this concubine's daughter.
Yao Yulu looked at the superior cloud satin, emerald earrings, golden eight treasures, and red gold circles. These are all beautiful things that she could only look at from afar, but now they belong to her. Her hand gently stroked the cloth, picked up the precious jewelry, and the thoughts that spread like a tide, perhaps for the rest of her life If you live in the deep palace, you will have endless glory and wealth, and you can't resist the laborious struggle.
Yao Yulu is not very grateful for the gold and silver jewelry her father prepared for him, because she seems to know that she is just a chess piece on the chessboard, nothing special or important. Yao Yuyun can't get on her. If she is removed from the chessboard, there will be another Yao daughter on the top. Go.
She was blessed and thanked Yao Guozhang. It seemed that she was giving Yao Guozhang a guarantee and gave her firm confidence. She squeezed her thin red lips and said, "Yulu will do her best to strive for an early sunrise opportunity. Please rest assured."
"Go down. It's not far from the day of entering the palace. Go back and prepare more." Yao Guozhang narrowed his eyes and looked a little tired. He waved his hand to let Yao Yulu retreat.
Yao Yu showed her condensation and ran to Lin's residence. The narrow old path scratched her skirt, but she had no time to take care of it. She just wanted to tell her mother today's result.
Yao Yulu pushed open the mottled red paint door and saw Lin sitting at the table with an embroidered handkerchief in his hand.
"Rier? How about today?" Lin's tone was full of urgency. She quickly put down the needle and thread in her hand and pulled Yao Yulu to sit beside her.
"Everything is as my mother wished. Today's dance is good, and the emperor also appreciates Lu'er." Yao Yulu's eyes flashed with rare joy, and the corners of her mouth bent up and said.
"Sure did not disappoint her mother. Although there are many glory and wealth in the palace, she has also heard of the difficulties in the palace. Next, you still have to rely on yourself to make a name in the palace. In Lin's remote room, she looked at the bitter and sweet heart of her daughter who was about to fly into the palace to be a phoenix.
"Mother can rest assured that Yulu knows that the road ahead is difficult and dangerous, but she will definitely be cautious and let her mother live a stable life as soon as possible." Yao Yulu couldn't help blushing when she remembered the sorrows of the past and looked at the old woman in front of her.
"Did Yao Guozhang say anything to you?" Lin has been resentful of this cold husband over the years. She has long been unwilling to regard him as her husband, so she calls him so coldly.
"Lue just came from the heart hospital. He told me to support Yujiao more. It seems that he has some other purposes. Although Lu'er doesn't know much about it, she also knows that Lu'er wants to help him consolidate his position in the court." Yao Yulu revealed the whole conversation just now, as if she expected her mother to guide her.
"Rier, your status in the palace is still humble. You still need him and Yujiao to give you some help so that you can have a foothold in the harem. Let's listen to him for a while, and then... Let's take a look at your creation. This deep palace is not as good as Yao Mansion. A little carelessness may lead to terrible consequences. Now he still need you. What he said is more true. In her early years, Lin also saw a lot of jealousy between her concubines in Yao's mansion. She knew that this was only rare compared with the struggle in the harem. Although Yao Guozhang made her hate her to the bone, she still talked about the matter.
"Rier understands what her mother means. In a few days, it will be the day for Luer to enter the palace. I don't know when to wait to see her mother again. At this point, tears appeared in the corners of Yao Yulu's eyes, and the tearful appearance was pitiful.
"My mother will take good care of herself. This handkerchief has been embroidered for several days. You often liked to take off the begonias on it and put them on your head when you were a child. I hope this begonias can bless you with everything in the palace." Lin handed the handkerchief to Yao Yulu. The handkerchief was made of white brocade, embroidered with a few delicate begonias with light pink rollers, and several magpie surrounded by begonias.
"Thank you, mother. Lu'er will let her mother enjoy happiness as soon as possible."
Yao Yulu looked at the begonia on this handkerchief, which was as pure and beautiful as the begonia she liked to play with when she was a child. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and carefully folded the handkerchief into her arms.
"It's getting late. Today, Luer and her mother are sleeping in a **." With that, Lin simply cleaned up the softness of **, and the mother and daughter depended on each other in this old hut, slowly unable to sleep with uneasy thoughts.
A few days later, it was the day Yao Yulu entered the palace. That day, she got up early to prepare, put on those clothes made of good cloth, put on glittering precious jewelry, and bid farewell to Lin, and stepped on the sedan chair to enter the palace.
However, the sedan chair stopped in front of Xuanwu Gate for an hour. Yao Yulu got off the sedan chair with the help of her maid. She looked at the sky of the day, as if the sky she saw as a child was so bright. It was easy to step into Xuanwu Gate, and stepping out may be the next life.
She understands that it is futile to retreat at this moment. The road behind the palace seems to be covered with a veil that she can't figure out clearly, and no one can be alone in the battle in the harem.
This day, Yao Yulu wore a light blue brocade dress, a purple smoke veil as thin as cicada wings, embroidered with light-colored peonies on a plain blue background, and outlined several cloud patterns with silver thread. A little pearl hairpin was inserted on the pulled up lily bun, and her slightly pink face exuded a youthful atmosphere.
Xuanwumen has gathered many girls of the same age. They are fat and thin, but most of them look like young ladies.
Some looked around quietly, and some sorted out their clothes. Yao Yulu couldn't help sighing when she looked at their excited or lonely look. When she first entered the imperial city, she also had the same uneasiness and anxiety, because the way forward was uncertain, like an abys that could not be seen at a glance, and the blessings were difficult to know.