Chapter 11 Women Dress Up as Men
"Huiruo, the boat you and the palace maids were requisitioned by me. You can go somewhere else to play!"
Song Renzong Zhao Zhen waited when Princess Fukang Zhao Huiruo walked up to him, but he did not beat around the bush, but said straight to the point.
After listening to the opening remarks of Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, Zhao Huiruo, as the eldest daughter, did not respond directly, but stood there in a daze and fell into deep thought.
Although Zhao Huiruo was young, she was quite smart. After asking the palace maids to dock the boat, she got off the boat and went to the shore. She saw Chen Maoze, who was the deputy chief of the eunuch, not wearing an eunuch uniform, but wearing casual clothes. She felt a little strange.
When Zhao Huiruo walked to his father Zhao Zhen, she saw that as the emperor of the Song Dynasty, she was wearing casual clothes like Chen Maoze in the palace. Even the ten major guards around her could not help but secretly become suspicious.
Now, after seeing her father, the first thing Zhao Huiruo heard was to requisition the small wooden boat she played and played with the palace maids on the Jinshui River, which made her feel even more wrong.
You should know that Zhao Huiruo was born in the imperial family, even if he was a woman, he was smarter than the children of ordinary families.
After she thought for a moment, she immediately guessed what her father Zhao Zhen thought, which was to use this small wooden boat to leave the palace from Jinshuimen.
When Zhao Huiruo thought of going out of the palace to go to folk tours, she yearned for it. She spent almost all of her life in the palace since she was a child, and she rarely had the opportunity to leave the palace.
Even after leaving the palace, he followed his father Zhao Zhen, Empress Cao and his concubines to go out to the palace to participate in some major celebrations, as well as the wedding and funerals of ministers stationed in Beijing.
Even if they were added together, Zhao Huiruo did not leave the palace more than ten times, which seemed very resentful to a young girl who was about 28 years old.
Even the daughters of wealthy families in the Song Dynasty, before they got married, would never go out of the door, which made Ouyang Xiu sigh at that time: How deep the courtyard is!
After thinking for a long time, Zhao Huiruo finally plucked up his slightly raised chest, and asked with confidence: "Dad, you can requisition this boat, but you have to agree to my request."
Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was particularly fond of his eldest daughter, Zhao Huiruo, on weekdays. Although he could not meet several times in a month, he thought that as long as Zhao Huiruo agreed to let him get on the boat, not to mention one request, even eight or ten requests, he would agree without hesitation.
"Huiruo, what kind of request do you want your father to agree to, even if you ask, your father will follow you." Zhao Zhen agreed without even thinking about it.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Huiruo said straight to the point: "Dad, my requirement is very simple, that is, my father goes out to the palace to have fun, and he has to take me with me. I have been stuck in the palace for a long time and want to go out for some breathing with my father."
After hearing Zhao Huiruo's request, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen began to regret it, mainly because he had doubts. If he brought Zhao Huiruo out of the palace today, Empress Cao would definitely learn about this afterwards.
Although Zhao Huiruo, as a princess, was born to Concubine Miao, because Empress Cao had no children or daughters, Zhao Huiruo and Empress Cao had similar tempers. In addition, Empress Cao and Concubine Miao got along very harmoniously and were like sisters.
In addition, Zhao Huiruo was smart and well-behaved, and was loved by others, and was regarded as his own.
It is precisely because of the bronze mother-daughter relationship between the princess Zhao Huiruo and Empress Cao that Song Renzong Zhao Zhen naturally did not want to bring Zhao Huiruo with him when he left the palace, it would be like being monitored by Empress Cao.
After making the request, Zhao Huiruo saw that his father Zhao Zhen had not spoken for a long time, and suddenly guessed that Zhao Zhen was worried. So she immediately decided to help Zhao Zhen dispel his concerns.
"Dad, don't worry, I won't tell anyone about taking me out of the palace today, especially the Empress (Empress Cao), and I won't tell my sister (Concubine Miao). If Dad doesn't believe it, the child is willing to swear to the sky now." Zhao Huiruo first made a promise to Zhao Zhen, and then made a gesture of "swearing to the sky".
The reason why Zhao Zhen’s posthumous title after his death was called Song Renzong is to be nice because he has a kind heart. To put it bluntly, he is that he has a weak and compromised side by nature.
Now, Zhao Zhen felt that his eldest daughter had said everything to this point. If he didn't bring her out of the palace with her, it would seem that he was a father too cruel and not kind enough.
"Okay, okay, Huiruo, Dad believes you, don't swear to the sky. Today, I'll take you out of the palace with you." Zhao Zhen quickly stopped Zhao Huiruo who wanted to swear to the sky, and nodded quickly and agreed.
Afterwards, Zhao Huiruo sent all the palace maids who were playing and playing on the boat in the Jinshui River. After no one was around, he called Zhao Zhen, Zhang Maoze, and nine other big guards to wait for the wooden boat and slowly sailed towards the Jinshui Gate not far away.
Due to the urgent situation, Zhao Huiruo didn't have time to return to the bedroom where she lived to change clothes, so he simply put on the casual clothes of a slightly short-sized inner guard who was originally going to travel with Zhao Zhen.
Thanks to her coming to Jinshui River to play with a few palace maids, she didn't dress up. After dressing up as a man, she became more heroic. She could definitely be described as the idiom "spicy and heroic posture".
In order not to reveal his true identity, Zhao Zhen waited to arrive at the Jinshuimen in the palace, and asked Zhao Huiruo, who was dressed as a woman, to take the token he gave to let the imperial guards guarding the Jinshuimen release it.
The centurion of the imperial guards guards who were responsible for guarding the imperial palace, saw Zhao Huiruo, who was dressed as a man, show the token that said "As I am here in person" on it. Although he saw that everyone on the boat was wearing casual clothes, he did not dare to intercept them. Not only did he open the Jinshui Gate and let the car go, but under his leadership, more than a hundred imperial guards bowed and bowed to see him off.
After leaving the palace, they followed the Jinshui River and first crossed the Hengqiao Bridge, and finally stopped at the shore pier under the Baihu Bridge.
Zhao Zhen ordered three great guards to stay on the boat to guard them, and took Zhang Maoze, Zhao Huiruo, and six other great guards to get off the boat and go ashore, and walked slowly south from the northernmost end of Wengwazi North Street.
At this time, it was Si, and the sky was already completely bright. On this bright spring March day, the breeze was blowing and extremely cool. It happened that Wengwazi North Street met in a market today. There were many shops and vendors on both sides of the street, selling various things, which made Zhao Huiruo, who had not left the palace for a long time, dazzled.
Chapter completed!