The bright peach blossoms in the small courtyard stretched horizontally towards the carved door, and the unsettled morning dew on the petals fell from the branches with the creak of the door opening.

The carved lacquered wooden door was pushed open to the sides by two snow-white slender hands, revealing a pair of soft-soled satin shoes inlaid with beads and embroidered lotus.

A young woman walked out of the room slowly, her eyes shining with anticipation, and her gestures revealed the air of a rare person.

Qinghe took two steps, broke off the peach blossom branch that stretched out into the aisle, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed lightly, in the center of such a spring scene, frowning, thinking about the words of her father-in-law Li Yongfu who came to see her yesterday with a message.

In the past two years, Emperor Wei Wendi has aged rapidly, his body has been seriously ill, and his temper has become more and more eccentric.

After Qinghe returned from Takicheng two years ago, thanks to Mu Gui's handwritten letters and personal tokens, he was spared the anger and punishment of Emperor Wei Wen. She had never seen the contents of the letter, and she didn't know why Emperor Wei Wen occasionally summoned her to the palace, and asked her all kinds of things about Mu Gui's exile.

Such an abnormality attracted the attention of the old queen mother.

She even mistook Qinghe for Emperor Wei's new love, and called her to her side to look silently. Unexpectedly, Qinghe's knowledge of advance and retreat, understanding etiquette, and good cooking skills, won the favor of the old queen mother in getting along, and even began to match her with Emperor Wei Wendi, until Emperor Wei Wendi explained the relationship between the two with a smile, the old queen mother was quite regretful, and often took Qinghe with her, as if she was a grandchild.

Holding the peach blossom branch in his hand all the way to the hall, inserting the peach blossom into the vase in the hall, Qing He fiddled with the delicate peach blossom while asking the attendant who was waiting next to him.

"How is the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang?"

"The Queen Mother is in good health, and Miss Xiang was taken by His Highness Eleventh yesterday to catch insects."

At the mention of Xiang'er, the corners of Qing He's eyes curled, but he still couldn't hold back a smile and asked about Emperor Wei Wendi's situation again.

"Listening to the little lizi on the emperor's side, it seems that someone from outside looked for the emperor yesterday."

Outside, it is the people who came out of the Northwest Battlefield.

These people who delivered news to her in the palace were the little father-in-law and palace maid who had received his favor when Chen Lao was still on an errand in the palace, and now Qinghe is holding his token, which is used by her.

When Qinghe heard this, he was not only overjoyed.

I didn't eat breakfast, so I hurriedly sent someone to prepare a carriage to enter the palace.

When she arrived at the door of the imperial study, Emperor Wei Wendi was still reviewing the chapters, and she just waited outside the door for a while before she was able to pass in.

Emperor Wen didn't know what good news he had got, his expression was like a spring breeze, and the yin owl on his body was gone, and he became much closer. Seeing Qing He come in, he smiled and beckoned to her to come forward.

"You seem to have said that you treat this child Mu Gui as a relative?"

Qing He didn't know what Emperor Wen meant, so he nodded his head.

"And if you say goodbye, are you happy?"

"Really?" Qinghe couldn't hold back for a while, and when she reacted, she knelt down neatly, and hurriedly begged for mercy, "The folk girl is guilty, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive her sins!" ”

"Excuse me." Emperor Wei Wendi waved his hand a little impatiently, "Probably she will return to Beijing today, you sisters haven't seen each other for several years, it's normal for people to miss them, what's the crime?" ”

Qing He buckled his head, got up, and asked carefully, "That...... What is the matter with the emperor summoning Qinghe? ”

"I want to go out of the palace to welcome the triumph of the army, the Queen Mother was still talking about calling you into the palace two days ago, Xiao Xiang'er can't always see her mother, this month's birthday, take her out of the palace."

- What does this mean?

Qinghe was overjoyed, hurriedly thanked him, and was about to go out, but was stopped by Emperor Wei Wendi.

"I'll spend the night in the Yongshou Palace tonight, and I'll call someone to call you tomorrow morning."

Along the way, Qinghe walked in a hurry, almost running with the corner of his skirt, complaining that he had worn such a cumbersome and complicated skirt in the morning, and he had known that he would wear a light body, and he could walk faster at the moment.

"Miss Xu, you go slowly, the minions won't be able to keep up—"

The little eunuch panted and followed behind Qing He, a little struggling to catch up. He should have led the way, but at this moment, he was left behind by Qing He and chased after him tiredly.

"Little father-in-law, why don't you go back first, I won't lose my eyes on the road to Yongshou Palace."

The father-in-law thought about it, thanked him and hurriedly turned around and left.

Qing He took a shortcut through the path between the rockeries, and for a while he didn't see the figure that was also hurriedly flashing from the side, and the two collided together and rolled on the ground.

Qing He gritted his teeth and endured the scream, but a thin and somewhat harsh familiar female voice still sounded in his ears.

"What a guts!"

Almost as soon as the words fell, the two met eye contact.

"Is that you?"

Anya's eyes showed some undisguised disgust.

The two have been in contact with the palace many times in recent years, and Anya never imagined that the daughter of a common man would be pardoned by the Queen Mother, but when she walked in the palace, she didn't need to salute when she saw the prince and princess, and it was foreseeable that she would break up unhappily every time.

Since getting the news of the victory of the Wei army half a month ago, Anya has bought off the little eunuch beside Emperor Wen, and when she learned that the general had returned, she would be able to enter Beijing immediately, so she hurriedly packed herself up and was about to leave the palace with the princess token, but she didn't expect to bump into this nasty woman on the road again!

"Shall the inner court allow you to behave misbehavingly? It's a small thing to bump into me, what if I accidentally bump into His Royal Highness the harem concubines? Xu Qinghe, is this your first day in the palace? Don't even know these little rules? ”

Anya rubbed her sore ankles, pulled up by the palace people, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows revealed a look of boredom, dusted off the corners of her light lotus skirt, and said in an impatient tone.

The two have clashed many times, from concessions to disputes, and now their hearts are like water, Qinghe has long known that the best way to foresee Anya is to ignore her. So she saluted and blurted out the words of apology.

The corners of Anya's eyes revealed a little smugness, her chin raised, and she said, "I won't bother with you, Cuiwei, hurry up, let's go." ”

Qinghe watched Anya leave eagerly, and looked at the direction she was heading, with a faint doubt in her heart. But this question was quickly put to her mind, and when she thought of Xiao Xiang'er, who she hadn't seen for many days, Qinghe's expression softened, and she lifted the corner of her skirt again and trotted up.

Yongshou Palace was close at hand, and Qing He clutched his chest and gasped violently. She wiped the fine sweat on her forehead, and eased it for a long time before ordering someone to inform the Queen Mother, and before the palace people came out to summon her, Qinghe heard the familiar crisp sound of bells.

Ding, ding, ding.

As if you can see the round, white and tender little milk baby stumbling towards the door, Qinghe couldn't help it for a while, jumped to the main door, and bumped into a pink and tender, fragrant milk dumplings in his arms, Qinghe took a few steps back, and his right leg retreated before he stabilized his body.

"Xiang'er~~"

Qing He took the pink carved milk doll in his arms and turned around in place, and when he saw the surprised expression on the face of the palace man, he stuck out his tongue slightly, and walked into the inner hall of Yongshou Palace with Xiao Xiang'er in his arms, with a smile on his face as he walked, and asked softly: "Xiang'er, do you want to kiss your mother?" ”

"I want to ~~~"

Xiang'er is not yet two years old, her voice is soft and soft, her voice is milky, and it hurts very much, her head is pressed against Qinghe's neck, and she rubs it hard. Qinghe, who rubbed it, giggled, and rubbed Xiao Xiang'er's forehead with his free hand.

Xiao Xiang'er raised her head and pouted, and there was a loud chirp on Qing He's left cheek. Qing He pointed to the right with a smile, and deliberately pretended to be pitiful: "How can you ignore this side with one over the other?" ”

So Xiao Xiang'er chirped on her right cheek again, and the kissed Qinghe's heart bloomed, and the inside softened into a puddle of spring water.

She walked slowly, her mouth was also close to Xiao Xiang'er's ear, and she took a bite before saying, "My mother misses you too, and my heart hurts when I think about it." ”

Before the words fell, the milky children's voice sounded softly again.

"My mother doesn't hurt, Xiang'er will give you a shir~"

Qinghe looked down at the little fat paws rubbing around on his chest, cried and laughed and gnawed Xiao Xiang'er's chubby white cheeks, stared at his daughter's innocent and somewhat aggrieved eyes, straightened his face, and said seriously: "This is called coming and going, Xiang'er is calling for mother, mother is gnawing on Xiang'er." ”

So Xiao Xiang'er was fooled by her mother, nodded emphatically, and remembered it very carefully.

As for Xiao Xiang'er, who grew up after that, made a joke because of this mother's casual nonsense, that's a later story.

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang was just taking a sniff of the tea handed over by the aunt next to her, and she saw the mother walking in with a smile, she put the tea cup on the table, stretched out her hand wearing gold and jade armor, waved it towards Qinghe's mother and daughter, and motioned for them to come over.

The Empress Dowager Wenzhuang stretched out two hands towards Xiao Xiang'er and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten to mourn your family when you have a mother?" Who was lying in the arms of the mourning family just now, saying that he wanted to eat Fuyun cake, crystal cake, mung bean ice cake......"

"Wo wo wo Grandmother's nest to eat! ”

Before the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang finished speaking, she was interrupted by Xiao Xiang'er, and she stretched out her fat lotus arm with a delicate silver bracelet forward, and immediately wanted to switch to the arms of the Empress Dowager.

Qinghe leaned into her ear and whispered to bite her ear, telling her to talk about the rules, and she didn't deliberately lower her voice, the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang heard that she took Xiao Xiang'er, took a soft ice cake in her hand and slowly fed it to Xiao Xiang'er's mouth, and the grandmother on the side took a handkerchief to wipe Xiao Xiang'er's clothes.

Empress Dowager Wenzhuang said casually: "Such a young child, what to do by these rules, it's good for her to be happy, isn't it, Xiao Xiang'er...... Is it tasty? ”

"Monkey Monkey ...... Eat ......"

Xiao Xiang'er raised her little chin covered with crumbs, raised it towards Qing He, still holding half a piece of cake in her hand, waved her fat paw at Qing He, and said milkily: "This is delicious, mother, mother, give it to you——"

Qing He looked left and right, the older palace people around looked at her with a kind smile, Qing He was slightly embarrassed and half-squatted down, and came to Xiao Xiang'er's hand to finish eating the cake in three or two bites, she was about to get up, and was suddenly slapped on the face by Xiao Xiang'er's palm, and her face was instantly covered with fine crumbs.

Withheld laughter rang out all around.

Qing He wiped his face, and saw Xiao Xiang'er raising her face and staring at her with round eyes.

"Mother, mother, mother, there are comings and goings, right?"

"Huh?"

"I'm going to gnaw too!"

“……”

Something doesn't seem right......