Inside the Ciyuan Palace

The pink gauze tent fluttered gently with the summer breeze, and the fragrance of roses was filled around, at this time, Tian Ruixin was lying naked on the bed with a polyp pill in the center of her navel, a fragrance spread, and she closed her eyes slightly and fell asleep.

Mama Jin opened the door and quietly covered it, walked to the queen's side, and said respectfully: "Queen Mother, it's time to bathe." ”

Tian Ruixin opened her eyes suddenly, sat up and looked at the portrait sent by the palace maid just now, her black eyes became more and more gloomy, "Mama, what do you say about the official ladies on these portraits?" ”

"It's very temperamental, but of course it's not as beautiful as the queen's mother." Mama Jin picked up the queen's favorite words and said.

"Oh, is it? Bring your clothes! The queen ordered lightly, and Mama Jin walked to the chair and brought a red gauze and draped it over her body, "Empress, these women are to be rationed..."

"These young ladies are going to marry the princes of the royal family who have become old years, and this palace doesn't know what the old woman has in mind, she just wants to stabilize her power." She was so cold that she swept all these portraits to the ground, "All of them will be burned by the main palace, and the main palace will be an eyesore when they look at it." ”

"Yes, the old slave will burn it." Mama Jin didn't know what was wrong with the queen today, so she quietly closed the door, pulled a familiar eunuch and said, "Bring me the list of the queen mother to the queen." ”

"Yes." After a while, the little eunuch brought the roster, Mama Jin searched carefully, and saw that Tang Zhiqin and Gao Lian's names were on the roster, and couldn't help frowning slightly, no wonder the queen was so abnormal today.

"Xiao Haizi, did the Queen Mother say anything to the Queen?" Mama Jin stared at the names on the roster and asked carefully.

The little eunuch glanced at Mama Jin and asked in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager gave the Empress Mother two days to select a group of the best young ladies, Mama, it's been a day, has the Empress Mother said anything?" ”

The queen is really messed up, Mama Jin couldn't help frowning, if the portrait is burned now, the queen mother will know that she will be furious, she thought about it and said to the little eunuch: "It's none of your business here, go down and do things!" ”

"Yes." The little eunuch glanced at Mama Jin and withdrew.

Inside the Kunqing Palace

The Queen Mother lay lazily on the couch and let the palace maid fan her fan, when the female official walked in with a stack of rosters and asked her to take a look.

"Let it go, all down."

"Yes." The palace maids had to retreat one after another, she casually took a roster and looked at it carefully, inadvertently paused in front of a name, raised her eyes and asked the female official on the side, "Is the third lady of Lin Shangshu Mansion in reach?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, the third lady of the Lin Mansion has just arrived at Lu, and now there is no marriage contract." The female officer stood aside and replied respectfully with her hands crossed.

The Queen Mother stared at the names on the roster and muttered, "Mrs. Lin's granddaughter, in just a few years, she has the momentum to catch up with and surpass Lin Zixuan." "The Queen Mother thought that a few days ago, Princess Ning Gu Yini turned a corner and wanted to ask for a good family affair for Lin Zixuan, there was a trace of impatience in her eyes, her cousin was incompetent and wanted to ask herself to draw a marriage for her, I was afraid that life would be too smooth, and it would block her." So according to the Queen Mother's opinion, the marriage of the third lady.... The female official looked at the Queen Mother and asked softly.

"Hey, this matter has been handed over to the queen, but what distresses the mourning family is that the crown princess asked the mourning family to marry her younger brother Tang Zhiqin a few days ago, which seems a little tricky."

"This..."The female official hid the slight surprise in her heart, not understanding that these three young ladies had great ability to make the always quiet princess make such a request.

"The mourning family also heard that Prince Jian also seems to have a close affection for this third lady of Shangshu Mansion." The Queen Mother said slowly, with a gleam in her eyes, "The mourning family didn't expect this girl to have such great ability." At the beginning, Lin Zixuan's beauty and talent had already spread in the aristocratic circle before Ji Xuan, but who would have thought that the fact that she became bald later became known to everyone, and actually covered up the vicious nursery rhyme before, at that time she just thought that Lin Ziran was just a little girl who was hiding behind the old lady and trembling, but she didn't expect that since she came back from the cemetery, this girl would have such good luck and ability.

"Then the Queen Mother prepares..." The female official asked the Empress Dowager Lou carefully, and said with some hesitation: "Last time, Princess Ning also came to see the Empress Dowager, this matter..."

"What are you afraid of, pass the order, and the mourning family wants to meet Lin Shuran." The Queen Mother said lightly.

In the palace, in the quiet garden, the flowers in the courtyard are all over the mountains, faintly revealing a faint fragrance, Lin suddenly followed the eunuch all the way through the long corridor without squinting, and saw the queen mother sitting in the flower pavilion, and couldn't help but arouse a smile.

Empress Dowager Lou was born in a famous family, when she was young, she followed the emperor to fight on the battlefield, suffered a lot, and was even imprisoned as a prisoner, she was a rare heroine, and later Empress Dowager Lou not only used her wits to make her son inherit the throne, but also helped her family occupy a certain position in the court, in her later years, she valued not the woman's appearance but virtue, she has always thought that the word "red face and trouble" water, and she attaches great importance to feelings, especially for the good sister Mrs. Lin, Therefore, after Lin suddenly learned about these news, he deliberately chose an extremely elegant costume and entered the palace to meet the Empress Dowager Lou.

There are several palace maids and eunuchs standing outside the pavilion, these people are all looking at their eyes and noses, standing with their heads down, sitting in the middle of the pavilion is the Empress Dowager Lou, even if she is over fifty years old, her hair is still jet black, she wears jade Ruyi on her head, her skin is delicate and smooth, there is a trace of fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and a smile on her lips makes people feel very gentle.

Lin suddenly walked up the stairs slowly, and the moment she saw the Empress Dowager Lou, she was amazed at her well-maintained skin and black hair, generally a woman's skin will go downhill after the age of fifty, but she didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Lou could still maintain such a ruddy face, but in the palace, how many people dare to neglect their appearance, she believes that in the backyard of this deep palace, the Queen Mother is not the only one who can take care of it.

"You are Lin Ran!" A cold voice like a yellow bird came from in front of her, and Lin suddenly smiled and took a few steps forward and saluted.

Empress Dowager Lou looked at her generous posture, secretly looked at her, from a distance she was fair-skinned, graceful, close to find that she was beautiful, not inferior to her sister's beauty, under the pressure of the Empress Dowager Lou, she was still not humble or arrogant, with a respectful smile on her face, how shrewd the Empress Dowager Lou was, she successively made the second lady and the second lady of the Lin family deflated, this girl is not an idle person, it stands to reason that the family affairs of Shangshu Mansion have nothing to do with her, But Princess Ning had to come over to complain twice in three days, and the crown princess came over to make suggestions from time to time, which made her feel a little interested in the girl in front of her, and it was related to the marriage of her children and grandchildren, how dare she slack off.

"Yes, the courtiers have seen the Queen Mother."

"Get up, child, look at it and be well-behaved, come to the mourning house." Empress Dowager Lou saw that she had finished saluting, and beckoned to her, "Lan'er, bring the mangoes that have been offered by Daiguo." ”

"Yes." The palace maid named Lan'er got the order, and hurriedly took a plate of extremely tempting golden mangoes and put it on the table before retreating.

Lin suddenly smiled decently and walked to the side of the Empress Dowager Lou, who took her hand with a kind face, and said with a smile: "This child looks good, this eyebrows and eyes are a little similar to your mother, I used to only hear your grandmother talk about you, but now I see that you are really well-behaved and lovely." ”

I don't know what the Empress Dowager Lou bought, Lin Ranran just smiled and said obediently: "Thank you for the praise of the Empress Dowager." ”

"Why should you be polite to the mourning family, if it wasn't for your grandmother who saved the life of the mourning family, would the mourning family still be alive now?" Empress Dowager Lou's eyes were a little moist as she spoke, like an elder who missed the past, which made people feel less guarded, Lin Ranran had read a lot of these palace fighting novels in the past, and she best understood the minds of these palace people, not to mention the high Queen Mother, she was just smiling bitterly, just when Lin Ranran was still thinking about what kind of abacus she was playing, Empress Dowager Lou suddenly proposed: "The mourning family heard that the piano skills are superb, and today is a sunny and good time, why don't you play a song?" ”

Lin suddenly smiled slightly, "Then the courtiers are ugly." Lin Ran is different from others, she speaks generously, controls properly, is more hypocritical and less reserved, and her unpretentious appearance makes the Queen Mother have a good impression of her when she first met.

At this time, the palace maid had already burned incense, and stepped forward with a good phoenix tail Jiao Guzheng, and was stunned, she was usually good at the pipa, but the guzheng had never been practiced, and if she showed her ugliness in front of the Queen Mother, it was a big crime to kill her head.

Empress Dowager Lou, who was sitting on the top seat, stared at Lin Ran intently, she had long known from the old lady's mouth that she could play the pipa, but today she deliberately gave her a problem, the guzheng is not a musical instrument she is good at, she wants to see how this girl ends.

Knowing that the Queen Mother deliberately embarrassed her, Lin suddenly condensed her mind, sat up dignifiedly, picked the strings, she tried to pluck a few times, and made a crisp sound, and after a while, bursts of brisk rhythm crossed her fingertips, like a mountain flowing water gently flowing, the notes jumped gently like big beads and small beads, as if in a cool valley, especially surprising was that there were butterflies gently falling on Lin Ranran's shoulders, it was simply a spring landscape painting, a song was finished, Lin suddenly finished the last epilogue, and she stood up gracefully: "The courtiers are ugly." ”

The Queen Mother finally came back to her senses from the sound of the piano, and there was a surprised expression on her face, she glanced at Lin Ranran, and there was a little more heat in her eyes: "The sound of the piano is really wonderful!" ”

Lin Ran lowered her head and said: "The Queen Mother praised it falsely, and she was ashamed, compared to the queen's piano skills, how could she be compared with the queen's mother." ”

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "You are really a wonderful person, the mourning family is used to hearing those flattering words, you are quite honest, but don't think that you are the granddaughter of the old lady, the mourning family will let you go, and then you have to test your tea skills, come to someone, prepare tea." As soon as she gave the order, a palace maid walked in with a tea set, and after putting everything in order, she stepped aside.

Lin suddenly stepped forward, put some tea leaves into the purple teapot with a tong, and after the tea slowly surfaced, she took the teapot and poured it around the teacups, poured tea into the nearest teacup of the Queen Mother and handed it to her.

"Queen Mother, please use tea."

The Queen Mother didn't take it, but asked with a faint smile, "Do you know what kind of tea this is?" ”

"This is the Luo Ye tea in the palace, in early spring Luo Ye is the most tender, but the tea leaves in midsummer are the most mature, especially with the snow water that has been stored for several years to boil and brew for the best, but the Luo Ye yield is less, and it grows in the remote high mountains, and the traffic is very inconvenient, although the Queen Mother loves Luo Ye tea very much, but she does not want to work hard and lose money and only let the emperor bring some back during a private visit to the microservice.

The Queen Mother didn't expect Lin Ran to know so much, so she couldn't help but ask with interest: "I can't see that you have a lot of things to do with the mourning family." “

Lin Ran replied with a smile: "Because I often mention my grandmother about the old things of the Queen Mother, and my grandmother loves tea, I often learn to make tea, and I know a little about tea." “

Hearing Lin suddenly mention the old lady, the queen mother's smile was slightly moved and said with a smile: "That's true, I think when the mourning family was young, they especially liked to take your grandmother to make tea together, but I didn't expect that after so many years, everyone is old!" The Queen Mother couldn't help but smile at the thought that the little girl who often quarreled with her at the beginning had actually become a grandmother.

Lin Ranran's speech is very flattering, not like other people's special flattery, and he knows very well that the Queen Mother is a very emotional person, and she casually mentions old things, but it will not seem too abrupt, and her humble and arrogant expression impresses the Queen Mother, and her love for Suddenly has added a little more.

In the following time, the Queen Mother invited Ran to visit her studio, and she could always say something praising but not offensive, and the Queen Mother was happy to reward her with two boxes of gold and silver jewelry.

In the evening, Lin suddenly returned to the mansion in a carriage, and the old lady beckoned her over. "Kid, have you eaten?" "No, my grandson isn't in a hurry to come over and have dinner with my grandmother." Lin suddenly replied playfully that the old lady breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this child is still smart, knows how to advance and retreat appropriately, and does not abstain from impatience and arrogance, it seems that he is the one in the palace. "What a stupid boy!" Old Madam Lin scolded her with a smile, but her face was full of smiles, "I also deliberately went all the way hungry to accompany my old bone to eat." "Grandmother." Suddenly took out a jade bracelet from her arms and slowly put it into her hand, "Grandma knows that grandmother and the queen mother have a deep relationship, and many things have helped grandchildren, this jade bracelet is the child's heart, please grandmother accept it." “

The old lady looked at the jade bracelet in her hand, the translucent Buddha can drip water, she looked through the light to see that there are clouds and mist in the bracelet in the past, it is said that the bracelet with clouds and mist has aura, can bless the owner's health, and the clouds and mist in the bracelet are not created at one time, it can be seen that the sincerity of the other party, thinking of this, the old lady's heart swelled with a burst of warmth: "With your heart, grandmother will be content, don't give me anything in the future, you have to keep this money to the palace up and down, understand." "Don't say that, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid my mother and brother and I would have to send someone to the fence." Lin Yuran was telling the truth, if it weren't for the old lady's support, the three of them would have died many times, and she was still content and grateful to the old lady. "I still need you to have Huigen!" The old lady sighed and touched her cheek, and said with a doting face: "But according to today's situation, grandmother wants to congratulate you!" "The grandson doesn't understand what the grandmother means?" Lin asked curiously. "Suddenly, my grandmother used to think that you were still a child, but now that you are in time, you are already a big child, you have the ability to take care of your mother and younger brother, you have the ability to be beautiful, and you can go further."

Lin suddenly listened carefully, and always felt that the old lady seemed to have something to say. "How many people want to break their heads and marry into the palace, but they are always trampled under their feet because of chess, and there are also people who fall to the ground because of the few words of the high-ranking ones, with the identity of our family, it is not difficult to find the right family, but because you have Prince Jane behind you, everyone looks at you with a wait-and-see attitude, you are almost seventeen this year but there is still no one to ask for marriage, we naturally can't guess the thoughts of these princes, now the Queen Mother is your best ladder, you have to catch her, let her like you, In this way, with your ability, you can definitely enter the nobility, I will be old one day, I can't protect you, if you become the darling of the Queen Mother, you will have more choices to marry, this is also the shortest way. “

Lin suddenly held the old lady's hand and said, "Grandmother, don't worry, your grandson understands what you mean." “

The old lady looked at Lin Ran with satisfaction: "Child, Xiao Ran is still too young, there is no way to inherit the throne of the lord now, and now the hope of the Lin family depends on you!" In addition, I will tell you some of the Queen Mother's diet and daily life, you are not facing ordinary people, your life may be threatened, you must be cautious in everything. "Yes, my grandson will follow his grandmother's teachings."

After the old lady left Lin Ranran for dinner, Lin Ranran chatted with the old lady a little more, and then returned to her Ranyuan Pavilion, she was lying on the bed and pondering what the old lady meant by saying that the Lin family had to rely on her, did the old lady notice something?

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