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It was raining lightly at night, and today's wind added a bit of chill.

Empress Chu was waiting for Yun Fengzhen to travel on her behalf, and consulted the meaning of Concubine Jun, but she was still willing to walk along the path.

The two of them wrapped their cloaks and walked hand in hand with the general when they came, talking and laughing and walking towards Shoukang Palace.

Qin Yao followed Queen Chu's intentions and sent someone to Shoukang Palace to report the news first.

The queen mother redressed, changed into a bean-green gold thread flower curtain, light brown gold thread embroidered Yutang's rich horse-faced skirt, and wore a bean-green red gold inlaid jade forehead, and ordered people to go to the palace gate to greet her.

When Empress Chu and her entourage arrived at Shoukang Palace, four neatly dressed palace people came up to salute and greet them, and accompanied them all the way in.

Mama Bai personally waited under the corridor, bent her knees to greet Queen Chu and Concubine Jun, with a kind smile on her face. She picked up a royal blue soft brocade curtain embroidered with five blessings and longevity with her own hands, and invited the two of them in.

The queen mother was weak, and there was a charcoal basin in the Shoukang Palace. The snow-white silver silk frost charcoal does not have a single star of fireworks, but the hall has its own warmth.

The palace people took the cloak of Queen Chu and Concubine Jun with great eyes, and quietly retreated, accompanied by Mama Bai all the way, and walked to the Dongnuan Pavilion where the Queen Mother lived daily.

There is a very faint fragrance in the warm pavilion, like the pavilion of the lotus, the water is clear and rippled but not demonic, faint and noble, slowly from the Rui Yunwen three-legged copper incense burner on the high table to emanate out.

Concubine Jun didn't stop slightly, took a deep breath, and then followed the footsteps of Queen Chu. She reveled in the nobility of the fragrance and showed an expression of appreciation.

On the black lacquered hardwood openwork carved claw pattern on the big kang near the window, the queen mother sat cross-legged, although her head was full of silver threads, she was still in good spirits. Xiao Mimi looked at the Queen of Chu and the concubine who came together, her face was kind and kind.

Concubine Jun Niangniang hurriedly took a few steps forward, respectfully knelt on the jade-colored futon placed in front of the big kang, and bowed to the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother is a thousand years old and a thousand years old." ”

The queen mother waved her hand, smiled and said that she was not polite, and Mama Bai had already helped the princess to get up, and asked her to sit down under the queen mother.

When Empress Chu entered the door, she also smelled the aroma, and when she was in a flurry, she finished greeting the queen mother, walked to the right side of a black lacquered hardwood openwork carved back rose chair, sat on the front one, and then asked with a smile: "The queen mother has not lit incense for many days, how can she find the incense burner again today, is this a unique product made by Mama Bai?"

The queen mother still didn't answer, and the old white grandmother blushed, saluted again, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "The queen mother has tormented the old slave, how can the old slave have this craft? This is the incense made by the county lord of Duanyi and the county lord of Chiayi for the queen mother and her old man, and it was only sent to the palace yesterday." The old slave took a closer look, from the ingredients to the craftsmanship, it was really one of them. The old slave only learned today that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky, and he will not dare to say that he can make incense in the future. ”

Queen Chu covered her lips and chuckled, stroking the green jade bracelet on her wrist, and her tone was soft and low: "Mama Bai is arrogant, and the two girls are bold in their materials. ”

When she entered the door, looking at Mama Bai's dress, Concubine Jun guessed that she was not an ordinary slave, but must be a very face-facing figure in front of the Queen Mother. Now seeing that she was talking casually in front of the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, and smelled a strange aura on her body, it was inconvenient to say it clearly, so she only looked at Mama Bai a few times.

Mama Bai sighed resentfully, and picked up Queen Chu's voice: "The old slave is really old, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the blue is better than the blue." The day before yesterday, I also asked the eldest princess to make incense, if I knew it in the morning, I should ask her to learn from these two nobles. ”

Queen Chu must have respected Mama Bai very much, gave her face everywhere, picked up the teacup and smelled the fragrance, and said with a faint smile: "Mama is modest again, Awei learned the craft of Baihao incense from you, and the day before yesterday I also sent two boxes to the palace, the taste is light but timeless, and the palace likes it very much." ”

In one day, I heard twice that the county lord of Duanyi was mentioned. If she didn't care about it before, Concubine Jun Niangniang became curious at this time, and suddenly remembered that her son mentioned yesterday that Qin Heng's sweetheart was the main master nine times out of ten, and she even had the intention of exploring.

By tasting the sweet fragrance in the furnace, the topic is pulled from the incense to the incense maker. Concubine Jun said with a smile: "I only heard that the two noble girls were enshrined at the same time the day before yesterday, and the concubines were clumsy, and they had seen them about once or twice, but they didn't recognize these two. ”

The Empress Dowager pursed her lips and smiled: "Duanyi is now in the palace, and I will ask Ah Wei to ask her to ask you to say goodbye another day." The county lord of Chiayi is a busy person, and if the mourning family wants to see her, it depends on whether she is available. ”

Queen Chu is in charge of the six palaces, and she is busy with trivial matters on weekdays, so she doesn't pay much attention to the affairs of these children. Luo Pujia and others often come to the Queen Mother to say goodbye, and the Queen Mother knows a few of them well.

Seeing that Concubine Jun Niangniang's face was puzzled, the Queen Mother laughed and said: "This palace can't keep Chiayi, let alone her brother, this pair of brothers and sisters have excellent medical skills." To tell you the truth, the old bones of the mourning family are still picked up by Chiayi's brother. His brother is not uncommon to work in the hospital, and now he runs a pharmacy, and Chiayi often helps his brother to sit in the clinic and treat some gynecological miscellaneous diseases, and he rarely has leisure time on weekdays. ”

Concubine Jun Niangniang listened to it in a fog, and it was difficult to ask, or the Empress Chu explained on her behalf, and in a few words, she brought Luo Nayan's experience of curing the Queen Mother's heart disease, and said that the life of the five princes today was also picked up by Luo Pujia, so she was canonized twice a year.

It turns out that there is such a relationship, and it is strange that a folk woman can win the favor of the queen mother and easily enter and leave the court. Concubine Jun Niangniang only felt that Xixia was very different from Kangnan Palace, lacking some of the majesty of the emperor's family, but adding full human touch, which was envied for a long time.

These days, whether it is the Queen Mother, Queen Chu, the two new concubines, or the only few princes and princesses in the palace, they all live in harmony, the family is close to each other, there is no deceit, and there is no fratricide.

Listening to the sound and distinguishing the meaning, the concubine Niangniang only listened to the words of the queen mother, only full of admiration, and did not mind that the county lord of Chiayi enjoyed the royal title, but she showed up as a woman, and her curiosity about these women was even more aroused, and she couldn't help but ask a few more questions.

While speaking, the small kitchen in Shoukang Palace steamed a newly steamed lotus root flour cake, and the snow-white pastry was sprinkled with a layer of crystal frosting, which was served in the dishes of the foundation painted green leaf fairy peach, and it was hot.

Concubine Jun, like Gu Chenxiao, likes to feed on lotus roots, thanked the queen mother for her kindness, forked a piece with a silver stick, smiled in her mouth, and praised a good word.