The Yukun Palace where the queen lives, there are two before and after, the main hall in the front yard is the Yukun Palace, the face is five wide, there are three hugging buildings, and there are three separate halls in the east and west. But the queen's daily life is not in the front yard, but in the backyard of the hundred flowers.

Baihuaju, because there are hundreds of strange flowers planted in it and get the name, is also five rooms wide, there are ear rooms on both sides, there are three halls in the east and west, the glazed tiles of Ambilight, the colorful paintings under the eaves, the palace maids and eunuchs who are pleasing to the eyes with low eyebrows and hold their breath and concentrate on the whole palace add a strong royal atmosphere.

At this time, in the warm pavilion of Baihuaju, the queen mother of the Great Jin Kingdom was half-leaning on the warm couch, wearing a red satin flower and bird pattern embroidered cardigan, a bright yellow gold threaded long skirt, and a black hair was casually tied up on the top of her head, leaning on the pillow and closing her eyes to recuperate.

On the side of the couch, a palace maid knelt on the pestle under the couch, holding a pair of beauties to hammer, and gently hung her legs.

"!"

Li Zequan, the great eunuch of Yukun Palace, walked in lightly with his body bowed, and said softly: "Qi Yu Niangniang, the Duchess of Liguo is here, and she is waiting outside the palace, waiting for you to summon her." ”

Empress Mo opened her eyes and said slowly, "Mother is here?" Kuaixuan-"

After saying that, she sat up from the warm couch, and the palace maid on the pestle hurriedly put down the beauty beat, knelt on the ground, and put on brocade shoes embroidered with nine-tailed colorful phoenix beads for her.

The Duchess of Liguo, who was wearing a gray-haired Duchess Liu, was already under the leadership of Li Zequan, wearing a first-class auspicious dress, holding the girl's hand and walking in, and when she saw Queen Mo, she bowed down and bowed.

"The concubine Liguo Mansion Liu family visit"

"Mother!"

Empress Mo had already put on her shoes, got up and stopped the old lady who was kneeling, and reached out to help her up.

"How many times have I said that a mother can perform royal courtesies with her daughter outside, and in her daughter's own place, these clichéd things can be avoided!"

Liu smiled kindly, and said: "Niangniang, the courtesy of the monarch and the minister cannot be spent, the lady is in the middle palace, and she should set an example for the concubines, if you just think about filial piety and don't let the concubines perform this ceremony, if it spreads out in the future, it will cause trouble to Niangniang and His Royal Highness King Qin, Niangniang will let the concubines perform this ceremony, otherwise the concubines will be uneasy!" ”

The queen had no choice but to sit down, leaned sideways, and reluctantly accepted her mother's gift.

After the ceremony, Queen Mo stepped forward in person, helped her mother up, led her to sit on the warm couch, offered tea, and said with a smile: "Mother recites Buddha scriptures in the Buddha hall every day, why is she so idle today?" Don't have to go to the temple? ”

Liu said: "Just because I talked to your father about Yi'er's marriage yesterday, didn't Your Majesty mean to refer to the daughter of the general who protects the country to give us Yi'er as his wife?" Why is there no movement? Your father and I were not at ease, so I came to ask in person. ”

Hearing her mother mention this, Queen Mo had a headache, rubbed her eyebrows and said, "Mother doesn't know, this matter is a long story, and let my daughter talk to you slowly......"

Outside the window, the breeze is gentle, and the palace maids and eunuchs who are waiting outside the hall stand motionless, like statues, and the courtyard is silent, only a green parrot is jumping on the magnolia tree, as if it is playing, and it seems to be foraging......

"In this way, Yi'er insisted on refusing to marry the daughter of the Li family, just for the girl of the Mu family?"

In the warm pavilion, the old lady Liu suddenly realized.

"Exactly!"

Speaking of Mu Caiwei, Queen Mo's already cold and arrogant face became even more gloomy, and her face was full of anger.

"It's all the women who don't know the height of the sky and the earth and are delusional, coveting Yi'er's position as the wife, instigating Yi'er not to get married, but the uncompetitive rebel was fascinated by her, and she really ignored the great cause, and really didn't want to marry!"

"So, what is the Queen Mother going to do?"

The old lady Liu put down the teacup in her hand, and asked with a little worry on her kind round face.

"Hey, it's hard!"

Empress Mo sighed: "Originally, I thought that woman was just a demon who seduced people with her beauty, and I wanted her to come to the Shangsi Festival banquet and compare with many nobles in the court, so that Yi'er could distinguish who was the pearl?" Who is the Ichthyme? After Bai Shanggong went to see her in person, he knew that in addition to her unparalleled beauty, the woman also behaved appropriately and retreated. ”

"Such a woman, if she was born in a big family and can help Yi'er's great cause, I have no objection to marrying her into the door, but she is just a talented daughter, how can she be worthy of Yi'er's identity?"

Liu said: "In this way, the queen can't do anything about her?" ”

Hearing this, Queen Mo's face turned cold, and said: "Mother, if you say that there is no way, it is not necessarily true, in the past two days, I have been thinking about whether to let her disappear, she can have such a great impact on Yi'er, I am afraid it will be a disaster to keep it!" ”

"Mother, never!"

The old lady said categorically: "This matter is absolutely impossible, Niangniang, you also said just now, that girl has a great influence on Yi'er, Niangniang, if you kill her, Yi'er will definitely resent you, this child usually looks at the hippie smile, but in fact, the most indifferent temperament, he has lived for more than 20 years, this is the first time to be tempted by a woman, if you kill the woman he likes, there will be a gap between your mother and son, and the child is a grudge, I don't know how many years it will take to let go, I can't forget this in this life, The gains outweigh the losses, and it is better for the mother to think twice. ”

Queen Mo smiled bitterly: "I also thought about what my mother said, so I didn't do it for a long time. ”

Liu said: "If you want me to say, there is nothing to worry about, the great cause is important, Yi'er naturally can't marry her now, but we can find a reason, first take the girl's marriage in our hands, and at that time, Yi'er will naturally be obedient." ”

Queen Mo was stunned, didn't understand what her mother meant, and said, "How to handle it?" What does it mean to be mother? ”

Liu said: "The queen can first accept the girl as a righteous daughter under the pretext of the queen, since the girl is your righteous daughter, she is the princess, the marriage naturally has to be decided by you, the queen can not let her marry first, only stay in the boudoir, and wait until Yi'er's great cause is completed, when the time comes, Yi'er wants to seal her to do, it is up to them to decide!" ”

Queen Mo: "Although my mother's plan is good, it is just a matter of accepting a righteous daughter, and the woman is not worthy of being a princess at all, if she rashly recognizes her, she will be criticized."

"Hehe, is there a better way for that mother?"

“……”

"Gah-"

Outside the window, a parrot parked on the magnolia tree suddenly screamed, flapped its wings and flew up from the magnolia tree, circled over the yard, and pulled a lump of green bird feces, and after pulling it, flapped its wings and flew away......

There is a limit to the time for the concubines in the palace to meet, and the Duchess of Liguo did not dare to overstep it, so she said a few more words to the queen, and when she saw that the time was almost up, she got up and left.

After the Duchess of Liguo left, Queen Mo leaned on the pillow of the money python, stroked the jade Ruyi on the side of the couch, pondered for a long time, and laughed lightly.

"Li Zequan, what do you think?"

Li Zequan smiled and said: "Niangniang already knows in her heart, why bother asking the slave?" ”

Empress Mo snorted and scolded in a low voice: "Wrongdoer, for the sake of a woman, I have moved out all the old grandmothers who practice in the Buddhist hall, and I am not afraid of torturing him!" ”

Li Zequan said: "King Qin must have known that Niangniang was going to be unfavorable to that girl, so he had to make this decision, it can be seen that His Royal Highness King Qin is sincere to that woman this time, Niangniang, His Royal Highness King Qin is a person who values affection and righteousness, and Niangniang must not hurt the relationship between Niangniang and His Royal Highness for a woman!" ”

Empress Mo glanced at the servants on the ground and said coldly: "Li Zequan, why did you also speak for them, could it be that you were also bought by him?" ”

When Li Zequan heard this, he hurriedly knelt down, and there was a sound of "bang, bang, bang", kowtow.

"Niangniang, the slave is wronged, the slave is really thinking about Niangniang, Niangniang, think about it, His Royal Highness King Qin doesn't even want his life for that woman, if Niangniang kills that woman, His Royal Highness will definitely hate you, Niangniang, the slave is the main one......"

Empress Mo was hurt by Li Zequan's fussy cry, waved her hand, and said weakly: "That's it, you go, let me think about it again......"

……

In a blink of an eye, three days have passed, these three days, Cai Wei did not leave the house, day and night with her mother to practice dance skills, until the morning of the Shangsi Festival, only came out of her hut.

Because she was going to enter the palace, her mother specially dressed her up, and when Cai Wei came out of the house, she saw that her father did not go to the restaurant today, and even Wen'er and Wu'er did not go to school, so they stayed at home and waited to see her off.

"Eldest sister, you are so beautiful today!"

As soon as Cai Wei walked out, Cai Fei and Wen'er Wu'er looked at Cai Wei in full costume and exclaimed!

Although they and the eldest sister see each other every day, most of the sisters they see are sisters who are wearing homely clothes and do not wear any decoration, and today's sister, with long distant mountain eyebrows and petal-like red lips, is dressed like a fairy concubine, and the beauty makes them dare not recognize each other.

Mu Zhongqing also looked at his stunning daughter, proud!

Today's Cai Wei wore a cloud fei makeup satin woven colorful flowers flying butterfly gown, wearing a flower-sprinkled Ruyi cloud pattern group skirt below, combing the hibiscus to return to the cloud bun, and the sideburns were swaying with gold-inlaid ruby butterflies. Wearing a pair of red gold droplets on her ears, she gently shook her porcelain white cheeks like jade, and her delicate and picturesque eyebrows and eyes, slender and graceful posture, and upright and fragrant, more and more her graceful appearance, like a green calyx plum that is blooming brightly, delicate and crisp, elegant and fresh.

"Let's go, go to the main courtyard and say goodbye to them, and then take the car into the palace."

For some reason, seeing her daughter dressed so ceremoniously, Du Shi felt sad, as if her daughter was going to get married, she walked beside her daughter, urging.

"Hmm!"

Cai Wei answered, said goodbye to everyone, and then walked to the main courtyard with her mother.

In the lotus lotus pavilion in the main courtyard, the men, women and children in the Anguo Mansion all arrived, gathered in the flower hall, and kept instructing Du Wanqiu, Du Wanyue and Du Wanru, who were about to enter the palace.

Today's Du sisters are all dressed up, Du Wanqiu wore a goose yellow embroidered green persimmon pattern makeup gown, willow green plate gold embroidered brocade, high hair embellished with a few pieces of gold and jade jewelry, sideburns hairpin a lilac palace silk flower, looks fresh, and elegant, like a spring breeze, refreshing, refreshing.

And Du Wanru's sisters, because they are maids, can't be as ostentatious as Cai Wei and Wanqiu, and only wear plain clothes, but if you look closely, you will see the clues of their two clothes.

The two sisters wore the same waist-length embroidered robins of different colors, tied with colored ribbons at the placket, and at the end of the ribbons, a pair of delicate and small silver bells were tied. The lower body is a pleated skirt with flowers and clouds, the skirt design is very wide and large, when the wind blows, the wide skirt flutters with the wind, like a rising fairy, beautiful!

These two clothes must have taken a lot of thought from the Wang family in the second room, if there is no Cai Wei, Du Wanru sisters may really attract others when they wear this body, but unfortunately with Cai Wei, they are destined to become foils.

After Cai Wei came in, when Du Wanqiu and the others saw her so stunning and beautiful, the smile on their faces instantly cracked, and they were so jealous that they could barely maintain the expression on their faces.

Du Ruhai glanced at Cai Wei, sighed for a moment in his heart, and then opened his mouth to lecture a few girls.

"You must remember, after entering the palace, you must be humble and courteous, cautious in words and deeds, and there must be no transgressions, and I heard that Ruizhu's girl is going to marry King Qin soon, you should accompany her more, and when she leaves the pavilion in the future, she will be the princess of Qin, and it will be difficult for your sisters to meet......"

Cai Wei heard this, and almost laughed out loud, what a shameless An Guogong, what a high-sounding reason, what to accompany Ruizhu, to put it bluntly, isn't it so that they can follow Li Ruizhu so that they can get to know a few princes and grandsons?

"Yes, thank you grandfather!"

Du Wanqiu, Du Wanru, and Du Wanyue sisters all bent down and went down to An Guogongfu, and Cai Wei followed behind them in the same way.

"Sister Wei!"

Wang also said loudly: "It's rare for you to be angry, to get the blue eyes of the queen's mother, and to win glory for our Anguo Mansion, grandmother is very happy for you." Speaking of which, there is still a girl in the palace in our Anguo Mansion, and now she is a beauty, living in Jinglin Garden, if you can be free, go to see her for your grandmother, it can be regarded as fulfilling a wish of your grandmother. ”

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Cai Wei smiled: "Don't be sad, don't worry, if I am free, I will definitely go to see her for you." ”

"Okay, I know, you girl is a kind-hearted girl."

Wang stood up, held the thrush's hand, and said, "The hour is almost up, let's go, I'd rather go early and wait there than go late and be blamed by the boss!" ”

The eldest lady, the second lady and the third lady, as well as all the ladies in the house, all followed the old lady out to see each other, and even Du Wanqing, the second-room maiden who had never shown up, also came out.

Today is the first time Cai Wei has seen Du Wanqing, because she is about to enter the palace, she didn't have the heart to greet her, only got to know her a little, and left in the car.

On the carriage, Du Wanru sisters were very nervous, kept talking, wringing the handkerchief in their hands, Cai Wei was very calm, closed her eyes comfortably, and rested against the wall of the car.

Now, she has put her mind at ease, the queen no longer intends to kill her, and she and her family's lives are worry-free for the time being.

Although now the queen intends to listen to the advice of the Duchess of Liguo, take her as a righteous daughter, and leave her son as a concubine in the future. But she believed that there was no mother in the world who would want her son to marry a vain snobbish, frivolous and superficial woman!

Therefore, she was sure enough to make the queen give up her plan to accept her as a righteous daughter and no longer interfere in her life......

I don't know how long I walked, the carriage finally stopped, Cai Wei and the others lifted the curtain, only to know that they had arrived at the north gate of the palace - Wan'anmen, the ministers and the nobles of the various provinces entered the palace and did not take this side of the palace gate, from this Wan'anmen into the palace, are all female dependents.

After Cai Wei and the three sisters of the Du family got off the car, they saw a lot of carriages from various prefectures parked in front of the palace gate, all of which were covered with canopy treasures, showing their wealth. This is the time when the nobles of various provinces enter the palace, and there are really a lot of people in front of the palace gate.

But the surroundings were quiet, no one dared to make a loud noise in front of the majestic palace gate, and they greeted each other in a proper manner, even if they met acquaintances, they only nodded slightly, and no one would talk and laugh here.

The girls all followed behind the grandmothers sent by the palace in an orderly manner, and walked towards the imperial garden with small steps.

This Shangshi Festival banquet is located in the waterfront pavilion of the imperial garden, and on the winding corridor, many tables and chairs are placed in a staggered manner, with the waterfront pavilion as the boundary, on the left, is the seat of the female dependents, and on the right, is the seat of the male guests.

This arrangement can not only meet the requirements of the rules of different seats for men and women, but also allow both men and women to see each other's appearance.

Shangsi Festival, originally a festival of washing dirt and sacrificing ancestors by the water, has now evolved into a festival of feasting by the water and visiting spring in the suburbs, and the Shangsi Festival presided over by the queen of the Great Jin Kingdom every year is actually a blind date festival in disguise, and it is a blind date day for the children of the powerful who have not yet decided to marry at the age of marriage and those noble women.

Therefore, every year on the Shangsi Festival, the sons and ladies of the various families in the court and China will dress up and come happily, hoping that they can meet a person who agrees with them.

Especially those sons and brothers, they all came to the Linshui Pavilion early, and every time the female relatives of any family came, they would immediately attract their necks to watch.

If they meet a woman they like, they will send someone to investigate the woman's origin, name, age, etc., and then write it down, and then go home and discuss it with the elders.

The ladies who have participated in the Shangsi Festival, if the family has not seen the matchmaker come to the door after four or five days, it proves that her appearance at the Shangsi Festival is not good enough, and no one likes her, which is a very shameful thing for the girl's family.

Therefore, after the Shangsi Festival, the more matchmakers come to the matchmaker, it proves that the daughter of that family is better and more sought-after! The more glorious they are!

Cai Wei and Du Wanqiu were led by an old lady to sit at a table on the left side of the Linshui Pavilion, where there were already three or four young ladies, who were talking and laughing in low voices, and looked at the painting boat parked on the lake, and there was a large platform on the painting boat, which was used to show the talents of the nobles later.

Cai Wei sat down in the designated position and looked around, and the moment she raised her head, almost everyone who saw her subconsciously held their breath.

As the poem says, "the peerless only Xizi, the only peony in the crowd," she is just like a budding peony, when the taste of the flowers blooms, but has already shown her stunning demeanor. She didn't even have to do anything, just standing there quietly and everyone was already in peace.

Now there is such a look, and when the time of the flowers really comes, how beautiful will she be?

Where she is, all the women are reduced to foils.

Her appearance caused a small commotion on the right, and the sons of those families, after seeing Cai Wei's peerless appearance, rushed to send the little maid to talk about Cai Wei's information.

"Whose lady is she?"

"How old is it?"

"What kind of in-laws are you looking for?"

Huo Yuan sat in the banquet on the right, and when he saw the sensation caused by Cai Wei, he chuckled unconsciously, and thought a little vanity, if these people knew that this girl would belong to him later, would they feel envious, jealous and hateful to him?

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