Chapter 34 Appreciation of the Osmanthus Pot

Originally, there was auspiciousness in the middle school, and it was dedicated to the emperor. No matter whether he took it seriously in his heart or not, he still had to express an attitude, that is, he thought it was a good omen from the bottom of his heart.

However, there was a white tiger incident before, which killed the Ji family who had been in power for three dynasties.

So, this time, the white deer said that it would be presented to the imperial court, and discussions started inside and out: Which important minister does the emperor dislike?

According to the degree of hatred, don't think about it, it must be the regent.

But the current status of the regent is still stable, and it seems that it is not so easy to shake.

As for the others, from Zheng Gu to Cui Wan to a group of courtiers who could be called powerful, all of them were terrified and endangered themselves.

Even Concubine De's natal family brought a special message to the palace, asking Concubine De to ask the most favored concubine, does this matter have anything to do with the Wei family, do you need a childcare platform?

Yun Fenghuang went to Taichu Palace after hearing the news, Chunjia was reviewing the memorial, heard that the imperial concubine had come and didn't stop, after a while, he ordered her to go in, and asked gently.

"I heard that a white deer has come down." Yun Fenghuang knew that he didn't believe in these omens at all, so he congratulated a few words meaningfully, and then said with a smile, "Concubine De and the others are very curious. As I said there, I have never seen it before, so I want to ask His Majesty, maybe some of the concubines can take a look at it?"

Chunjia said indifferently: "After Du Langu left, Wannian county magistrate is capable, but he is a little more thoughtful. But he is still young, so it is not a bad thing. I have already asked someone to talk to him in private, If you have time to do this in the future, it is better to spend more time on the treatment."

Yun Fenghuang understood that what happened this time was not caused by Chunjia, but because the new Wannian magistrate wanted to please the emperor.

"This is also His Majesty's wisdom and martial arts. I don't know how to express my respect and love to Your Majesty." She said casually, "Seeing such auspicious omens as Bailu, I naturally want to report it, but it is also their intention."

Chunjia laughed: "I originally planned to reprimand the county magistrate, but since the imperial concubine said so, let's forget it."

Hearing what he said, Yun Fenghuang knew that the emperor was not actually angry.

One is that the new county magistrate has the ability to listen to the tone of the emperor, and the rule is actually passable; the other is that he is now just when he needs the wings of his courtiers. The county magistrate is not of high rank, but Wannian County is different from other ordinary counties. Similarly, those who can be the county magistrate here must have made a big mistake, or they are too old, otherwise the future is likely to be promising. Such a person tried his best to please him, which shows that his authority has already been established.

A few years ago, they followed the family of the Ji family, the Laicui Garden of the Prince Regent's Mansion, Cui Wan and Zheng Gu, who would think of pleasing the emperor?

Yun Fenghuang then said some words of Chunjia's wisdom and martial arts, and then Shi Shiran resigned.

Back in Xuanqing Palace, Concubine De was still waiting anxiously, until Yun Fenghuang explained the ins and outs and expressed that she would not do anything in the temple. With a sigh of relief, he thanked him and left.

The news spread quickly, and the front and rear palace finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When Chunjia learned of what had happened afterwards, she simply ordered the white deer to be sent to the palace, where it was raised on a small square pot.

At that time, the banquet will be held, and let everyone enjoy it.

...to show that the emperor doesn't want to do anything this time, so Xiangrui will be kept in the public eye, so it's not easy to do anything.

There is going to be a banquet in the palace, so it is natural to report to the Empress Dowager.

However, the Empress Dowager didn't really want to save face, and later Gu Zhen went to talk about finding a consort for Minghui, and the Empress Dowager reluctantly agreed.

For this reason, Chunjia praised the queen very much, saying that Gu Zhen is her good helper, capable and considerate.

But Gu Zhen was not happy to be honest, because after the emperor finished speaking, he hurried to Yijia Palace: because the third emperor had a cough these two days.

Concubine De is not the kind of person who would invite children to be favored. Since she reported to the imperial court that the third princess was uncomfortable, it must be true.

It's not that Gu Zhen doesn't want the emperor to see the third princess, but when Chunjia leaves, the lonely expression of the third prince leaning on the beauty and looking at his back really pokes the queen's heart.

She didn't want to hide it from the third prince for a lifetime, after all, it was impossible to hide it. However, the child is still young, so there is no need to let him know about himself, what his biological mother has done, and the grievances and entanglements between his biological mother's family and the emperor.

But that's what she thought, and everyone in Yanfu Palace also did so under her orders, but the emperor didn't cooperate.

"Be good, Bing'er, your younger brother was seriously ill before, which scared your father." The queen sighed, and put her arms around the third prince to coax her, "That's why your father loves him more now, but it's not unreasonable." I like you, that is, your father is busy with government affairs and has no time to accompany you."

The third prince is only two years old now, he is ignorant, and he is gradually relieved after being dragged by her for a while.

Gu Zhen couldn't help it, so he sent someone to take him out to play, and discussed with his left and right: "Should I mention this matter to His Majesty? After all, children are innocent, and Kang Jieyu and the others have already left, so they can influence him." What about the second prince and the third prince? Even though these two princes will not be destined for the high position in the future, can they be treated like ordinary princes? They are not the eldest sons of the legitimate sons, why are they so eye-catching?"

"The banquet is imminent. Your Majesty, why don't you wait until this osmanthus feast is over before discussing with His Majesty, so as not to delay the matter now. After all, this is not in a hurry." The left and right are not very optimistic about the Queen's move, because Gu Zhen has already done this before. I have done a lot of small tricks, and the emperor either noticed it a long time ago, or didn't notice it, but generally he didn't pay much attention to it.

Worried that there would be a dispute between the emperor and empress before the banquet, the emperor would not give the empress face when the banquet began, and make the empress lose face in full view, so he suggested, "Besides, the banquet is very lively, maybe your majesty will be touched by the father's arms." , needless to say, you are thinking about the Third Prince?"

Now it's autumn, and the sweet-scented osmanthus is blooming sporadically inside and outside the palace, and the sweet-scented osmanthus is already faintly floating.

This banquet is in the name of enjoying sweet-scented osmanthus.

In fact, there were also chrysanthemums that were in season, but after discussion, the omen and homonym of sweet-scented osmanthus were better.

Although in fact it is not the best time to appreciate osmanthus, but no one would pick such a small flaw, they all know that it is just an excuse to get together, let the two empress dowagers come down quickly, and also give it to the clan and nobles The children of the family took a look at each other.

Yes, although the queen has not explained to the imperial concubine and others that she wants to take advantage of this banquet to find a consort for Minghui, she is already thinking about it outside, taking this opportunity to make some in-laws.

After all, apart from the royal family, who has the face to gather all the young talents and jewels in their hearts?

There is no other occasion in the world that is more suitable for dignitaries and nobles to look for their daughter-in-law and son-in-law.

The empress took the lead, and the three concubines assisted... In fact, the so-called concubine Shu and concubine De concubine were the second, and it was the concubine who really did the work.

Because Concubine Shu was pregnant, she didn't dare to be too busy, and the concubines didn't dare to make her too busy.

As for Concubine De, she was not particularly agile in doing things, and in order to be on the safe side, she had to ask the concubine for instructions first, so she gradually became an errand...

After being so busy for a few days, it finally came to the day of enjoying the osmanthus banquet.

Early in the morning, Liu Gong had already got up and was dressing up, the night before, Chun Jia rested at Concubine Wan's place, and while she was getting dressed, she asked Concubine Wan: "Who are you going to Xiaofanghu with today? "

Originally, according to the rules, it is best not to make things difficult for the Sixth Palace when the concubines go to Yanfu Palace to greet the queen, and then lead by the queen to Qingci Palace to greet the Empress Dowager. At this time, the empress dowagers of the two palaces also go to Qing The Compassionate Palace gathered together, and everyone went to Xiaofanghu with great strength and greatness together with the Empress Dowager.

The problem is, the empress dowagers of the two palaces will definitely not go to Qingci Palace.

This is more embarrassing.

In common sense, the empress dowager is of high rank and status, and she is also the grandmother of Chunjia's upright son, so concubines should go to Qingci Palace.

However, emotionally, the emperor was more cordial with the two empress dowagers.

On the contrary, there is a lot of estrangement between him and the empress dowager.

For this reason, Gu Zhen also discussed with the concubines for a long time, and finally decided: "Return to Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager and the others said before, first go to the Qingci Palace to greet the Empress Dowager, and send the Empress Dowager to Xiaofanghu. As for the two At the Empress Dowager’s place, Princess Lao Kunze will be there.”

"...Kunze has grown up too." Chunjia was too busy, even if she was only such a sister by blood, she followed him to the Imperial Capital and grew up in the palace, but she didn't remember much.

Hearing the words at this moment, he said with emotion, "I can help."

His expression was complicated for a moment, so he stopped talking about it, and only said to Concubine Wan, "The red agate hairpin on my concubine looks even more beautiful."

"Your Majesty will coax the concubine into a willow, and the concubine's willow appearance is the same in everything she wears." Concubine Wan is not very favored, and it is rare to hear such a suggestion from the emperor. The onyx hairpin was plugged in.

Arriving at Yanfu Palace after a while, the queen saw it and praised her, saying that she had chosen the hairpin well and it was very suitable, so Concubine Wan said braggingly that the emperor had chosen it for her.

In the end, the words were just out of the mouth, and the noble concubine, who usually only arrived at the finale, walked in. Hearing this, she glanced up at her head, and the corner of her mouth twitched.

Seeing this, the empress and concubine Wan were a little embarrassed, but the empress was the first to greet Yun Fenghuang and said, "You came early today."

"Today is an important day, how dare I delay?" Yun Fenghuang said lightly, "Yesterday, I prepared the chai ring robe that I will wear today."

These words were almost talking about Concubine Wan. Concubine Wan shrank her head very uneasy, and looked at the Queen for help.

The queen felt quite a headache, she pinched her forehead and said, "You are young and born well, so naturally you don't need to bother to dress up, but others may not be like you, but you have to think carefully about it."

Yun Fenghuang wanted to smile or not and said: "Actually, my eyesight is not good, so it's easy to ask someone with good eyesight to help me make up my mind."

Concubine Wan wished she could shrink her head into her neck.

Of course she was very aggrieved in her heart, but in the past two years in the palace, even if she didn't personally learn how to teach the concubine, she still knew the fate of offending the concubine.

Especially today there is a banquet coming up, if one is not good, the embarrassment will be thrown to the previous court.

Therefore, he could only clenched his fists and silently persuaded himself to calm down.

Fortunately, doing so was very effective. Seeing that she was silent, Yun Fenghuang let it go after a few teasing words, and turned to tell the queen about some arrangements for the banquet.

The concubine said a few words, checked the time, and went to Qingci Palace.

When they arrived at the Qingci Palace, the Empress Dowager asked them to wait for a stick of incense before calling them in.

And it's just letting the main seat in.

Fortunately, after seeing the Empress Dowager, there were no twists and turns, but as usual, I invited Ann and explained my intentions, and the Empress Dowager let me go.

But when she arrived at the pier by the Taiye Pool, the Empress Dowager looked at the painted boat in front of her and felt very emotional: "I remember the year before last, when Ai's family took a boat here to go to the island for a banquet... At that time, the boat had not been painted for many years. Use it, packed it up overnight, still smelling a lot of incense..."

She sighed, shook her head and didn't say anything else, she walked onto the deck with the hand of the palace maid.

The queen followed closely behind, and said with an apologetic smile, "Grandmother wants to burn incense? The granddaughter-in-law asked someone to prepare it?"

After saying this, Yun Fenghuang lightly touched his elbow, and immediately understood that he had made a mistake, but he couldn't remember what was wrong for a while?

Then I heard the Empress Dowager say: "At that time, the incense was too strong, and Ai's family was not used to smelling it. It took a long time for the former empress to disperse the incense before boarding the boat... Time has passed, and the empress probably doesn't remember it."

Gu Zhen felt a little embarrassed, and smiled apologetically, "It's my grandson's daughter-in-law's fault."

"It's all trivial matters." The Empress Dowager said lightly, "Forget it, the Ai family has not been to the small square pot for the banquet this time. I remember that the last time I went back to the small square pot, it was still with the late emperor. when……"

What kind of old sesame seeds and rotten millet are those, who knows from the queen down in the palace now?

But you can't help but chat.

It is simply that this job is mainly for the queen, and even Yun Fenghuang is only at the side occasionally serving tea and pouring water.

The weather today was not bad, but there was a little wind and waves on the lake, so the palace staff who operated the boat inevitably slowed down so as not to disturb the Empress Dowager and the others.

It took a long time to get to the island.

It is also the first time to visit Xiaofanghu Yunfenghuang. I only heard about the situation from others before, and I know that the scenery here is excellent, but it is very unfriendly to people who are too young or old.

Coming out of the painting boat at this moment, and still standing on the deck watching, I feel that when this place was built in the first place, a lot of money was spent on it.

The pier at the destination is relatively flat, and a little farther away, there are two or three people's high rockery piled up to block the view. The moss on the rockery is full of wildness.

But I saw three or two winding and narrow paths, hidden among flowers and plants, winding and submerging behind the rockery.

In the back, the lush branches and leaves of towering ancient trees cover each other, and there are many shadows, and it is not known whether it is the crown of the tree or the mountains.

Faintly heard the sound of waterfalls and trickling streams, mixed with the sound of sparrows and insects, all sounds whispered.

After all, she is no longer the little palace concubine she used to be. Yun Fenghuang only took a few glances before turning her gaze away. Together with the queen, she helped the Empress Dowager from left to right, and wanted to go to the main hall of Xiaofanghu.

At this moment, a person slowly came down from the rockery ahead, which surprised them.