The female official on the side was stunned, she really didn't know which hairpin to reward, and looked at Concubine Zhuang for help with hesitation.

Concubine Zhuang looked at the Queen Mother with a smile, and her tone was embarrassed: "This is the first time that the Queen Mother has recycled such a flower as Wan Nianqing, and there is no Wan Nian Qing style in the hairpin made by the Internal Affairs Bureau, you can stump us." ”

Everyone couldn't help but secretly support their foreheads, evergreen are all leaves, and this evergreen-style hairpin can't look good.

Thinking like this, everyone showed a smile on their faces, especially some girls, with a gloating expression, as if they were ugly.

The Queen Mother said disapprovingly: "Since there is no hairpin of this style, it is up to the mourning family to decide to reward this hairpin to the lord of Evian County," she said while taking off a golden crested hairpin on her head, putting it in the box, and handing it to the female official, "It is rare for the county lord of Evian to have such a heart, and the mourning family is not too stingy." ”

The uproar of the audience immediately ceased.

The phoenix hairpin on the head of the Queen Mother, that is a great grace, just such a pot of evergreen that can be seen everywhere, can get such a reward from the Queen Mother, and everyone else is stunned in place, unable to believe their eyes.

Chan Yi was also stunned, she didn't know that this year's Hundred Flowers Banquet was heavier than in previous years because of Chu Shaoyuan's selection of concubines, so she didn't want to attract too much attention, so she planned to take a pot of Wan Nian Qing to fool the past. Later, she knew that this Hundred Flowers Banquet was specially organized for Chu Shaoyuan to choose a concubine, and she was faintly unhappy in her heart.

Ben also had some intentions, so he deliberately didn't change it, intending to add some blockages to Chu Shaoyuan and give him a headache, but he didn't expect such a reversal.

It wasn't until the female official held the hairpin in front of her that she came back to her senses, and hurriedly saluted and thanked her, and the fingers that took the box were still trembling slightly.

Xie Shi was taken aback, the Queen Mother rewarded the late evening, is this possible......

Thinking of the meaning, she was very surprised, looked at Chanyi, and then looked at the Queen Mother and Concubine Zhuang, and felt more and more uneasy, Wanwan has always been at odds with Brother Yi'er, if the two of them are forced together, I am afraid that they will be noisy every day, as soon as she thinks of the injuries on her daughter's head and body because of the three princes directly received those injuries, she is even more restless, just want to quickly ask Concubine Zhuang, and ask things clearly.

The Queen Mother's face did not show any clues, and continued to comment on other beautiful flowers.

Until the last comment reached the last pot, she couldn't help but stand up, with surprise in her voice: "This... This is Yao Huang Wei Zi! ”

Yao Huang and Wei Zi are extremely precious varieties of peony flowers, and the pot in front of them is obviously grafted together with two precious flower species, and the flower branches are scattered with yellow and purple peony flowers, and some of them are not budding, which looks very good-looking.

The Queen Mother looked at the small wooden plaque hanging on the flower branch, with the word 'Zhu Xuan' written on it, she nodded secretly, worthy of being the daughter raised by their Zhu family, and such peonies were only cultivated by the Zhu family.

She looked at Zhu Ying with a smile, "Good boy, how long have you raised this Yao Huang Wei Zi?" ”

Zhu Yu stood up and replied respectfully: "Back to the Empress Dowager, the courtiers have been raised for three years, until the beginning of last year, Yao, Huang, Wei and Zi staggered flowers, and the courtiers dare to dedicate to the mother this year." ”

The Queen Mother looked at her lovingly: "It's hard for you to have such a heart, good, good, good!" Russell, reward Yao Huang and Wei Zi with two hairpins! ”

The Queen Mother said three good words on her face, which is enough to prove her love for this pot of flowers in her heart, and those ladies who were surprised before, their minds are alive again, and they want to come to the former Queen Mother to reward Miss Xia Er, just because there is no suitable hairpin, and she has been in the limelight recently, the Queen Mother will give her such a big face.

The female officer hurriedly responded, found the two hairpins representing Yao Huang and Wei Zi, placed them in the box, and respectfully presented them to Zhu Jin.

Zhu Ji smiled and took it and thanked her, although she tried hard to suppress the gloom in her eyes, but the unwillingness in her heart rushed up uncontrollably.

She raised her eyes to look at Chanyi sitting opposite, and saw that she was talking to Xie, her magnificent face was full of smiles that were brighter than flowers, and the smile was pure and beautiful, as if it would faintly shine in the sun.

She felt more and more uncomfortable, why did she spend so much energy to cultivate the peony flower, but she lost to Chanyi, a ubiquitous evergreen? Even the reward is just such a hairpin, but Chanyi got the phoenix hairpin on the head of the Queen Mother.

Is it really so unfair that things in the world?

She was still unhappy, so she saw a little eunuch in the distance hurriedly running over and telling the queen mother: "The emperor and the three princes are walking by, saying that today is a hundred flowers banquet, and they will also come to enjoy the flowers together." ”

The ladies in the water pavilion were all taken aback, they didn't expect the emperor to come over with His Royal Highness the Third Prince, and they all fidgeted a little.

The Queen Mother smiled and said to everyone: "It's okay, since they want to come and see, then put the flowers away." ”

Originally, the Hundred Flowers Banquet was to move the flowers to Ci'an Palace, since the emperor came, the Queen Mother simply did not let people accept it, and the flowers were red and green, and only the pot of evergreen was the most conspicuous.

The emperor and the third prince Chu Shaoyuan arrived at the water pavilion after a while, and everyone got up and saluted, while the emperor and Chu Shaoyuan saluted the queen mother.

After saluting, the emperor sat down next to the queen mother and said: "I just told the third child about the abnormal climate in Yunfu City these days, the third child said that the flowers in his palace are frozen to death, and he looks a little deserted, and wants me to ask the queen mother for a pot of flowers for him, where do I know what flowers the little doll likes now, so I simply came over with him to see what flowers there are, which is to disturb the peace of the queen mother." ”

As soon as the emperor's words came out, the ladies of various families sitting below couldn't help but take a breath, they didn't expect such an unexpected incident, the emperor and the queen mother valued the three princes so much, and even the marriage matters were decided by him.

There was a bold woman who raised her eyes and glanced at the third prince, and she was stunned.

The young man not far away has a pair of delicate eyebrows and eyes like mountains, amber-like eyes are very deep and quiet, noble bearing, elegant manners, standing there with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and faintly with the invincible momentum of Mount Tai in the silence, which makes people hang their heads with a blush at a glance.

The ladies present all hoped in their hearts that the three princes would be able to favor the flowers they raised.

The Queen Mother looked at Chu Shaoyuan with a smile: "Na, the flowers are all here, pick up the ones you like, don't be dazzled." ”

The corners of Chu Shaoyuan's mouth curved, and a bright smile floated on his delicate facial features, "The imperial grandmother is bothered, the only one that the grandson likes, the grandson has long been optimistic." ”

As he spoke, he walked in the direction of the flowers.

His steps were slow, but the sound of his drum-like heartbeat seemed to be uncontrollable, and the expression on his face was slightly nervous, which contrasted his amber eyes even brighter.

On the other hand, Chan Yi only felt that her face was very hot, she really didn't expect Chu Shaoyuan to be so blatant, she knew that she shouldn't have come to participate in any hundred flowers banquet, wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask him to ask for a holy decree directly?

But now, in full view of everyone, seeing him getting closer and closer to the pot of flowers, her face didn't know where to put it.

Xie Feiyun frowned, as if he had seen some clues, peeked at the expressions of the ladies present, and found that every time Chu Shaoyuan passed by a flower, one of the ladies had their eyes silently dimmed, while the eyes of the other ladies were brighter.

It wasn't until Chu Shaoyuan walked to the pot of evergreen, paused, looked at this pot of flowers that were really green from head to toe, his face seemed helpless and spoiled, and he carefully picked up the flower pot.

"Imperial grandmother, my grandson sees this pot of flowers growing so luxuriantly and vibrantly, it is very spring-like, and I like it very much, and I want to take it back to the palace to raise."

As soon as he said this, the ladies present were about to break their hearts, and some of them immediately thought of the attitude of the previous queen mother, and their hearts were very sad and indignant, since the queen mother, the emperor and the three princes already have candidates in their hearts, why let them come up like this?

And Chan Yi was slandering in his heart, his ability to talk nonsense with his eyes open was still so high, didn't he see that the faces of the emperor and the queen mother were almost unbearable.

Sure enough, the Queen Mother was choked by his words, and said after a while: "Since your eyes are like torches and your eyes are discerning, then take it back." ”

The helplessness in the tone made people feel sorry for the Queen Mother.

Chu Shaoyuan smiled and picked up the flower pot, as if he had some kind of treasure, and even the little eunuch didn't allow him to hold him for him, so he carried it back to the palace, and his eyes didn't look at Chanyi from beginning to end.

But even so, Chanyi was still very uncomfortable, because after Chu Shaoyuan left, she immediately cast unkind eyes from all directions, which made her feel like she was on pins and needles, so she didn't notice that the Zhu Xie family not far away had their own different situations.

……

When the banquet was over, everyone walked to Chongxing Gate to say goodbye, and then got into the carriage, which kept the noise of the whole day out of the car.

The atmosphere in the carriage of the Zhu family was very quiet, only the Wang family and Zhu Yu's mother and daughter sat in the car, Zhu Yu clenched his fists tightly, staring at the cotton curtain embroidered with the three friends of the cold hanging down from the car door, his eyes were full of complaints.

Wang was on the side, looking at her with complicated eyes: "Jin'er, let's die this time." ”

She gritted her teeth and whispered, "Yiqiē obeys my mother's arrangement." ”

On the other hand, Xie Shuangyun seemed to have been beaten by frost, and the whole person was depressed, looking at the yellow-bottomed broken flower teapot on the small table in the carriage blankly, only to feel that the efforts of these days seemed to be in vain.

The third lady Zhou said softly: "Your grandfather often said that there are times in life when you have to have it, and there is no time in life when you don't force it, do you understand the meaning of this now?" ”

Xie Shuangyun flattened his mouth and didn't make a sound.

Zhou gently smoothed her messy hair scattered on her sideburns behind her ears, "Many things have already been determined, and if you don't want to, you just force it, and it may not be good, not to mention that you also see today's events, and the three princes are clearly ......worried about the evening."

"Mother!" Xie Shuangyun raised her eyes to look at her and pursed her lips, "I just feel uncomfortable, since they have already decided, why do they still come to this show, is it fun to play with others?" ”

Zhou sighed, "I'm afraid that today's incident, the Xia family doesn't know about it, otherwise how could Old Madam Xia let Wanwan bring such a pot of flowers over." ”