The queen's faint sigh is like the incense of this Jingfu Palace, with a slightly cool and bitter breath. However, although Shu E has experienced many hardships in just over ten years, she is still a cardamom girl of the green age, but she can't understand such a sigh from the queen. The queen looked at Shu E with a blank look on her face, and smiled: "I really envy you for your young age and good looks, but there will be no sighs of time passing and getting old." ”

Shu E hurriedly got up and said: "The queen is in her prime, and the country is beautiful, it's really too much. After a pause, he said: "The slave has a rough complexion, and the queen praises her falsely......"

When Shu E heard the queen's praise, she suddenly remembered that in the rumors and hustle and bustle in Minghe Hall that day, Qin Meiren and Yang Meiren that day were either bright or dark, or warned or whispered, and they all minded the rumors that the emperor liked Shu'e. The queen - this dignified and dignified person in front of her is not only the queen of the world, but also the wife of the emperor!

Shu E couldn't help but feel nervous in her heart, but the rumors were all things that had never happened before, but she was not afraid. Shu E looked up at the queen, but saw that the queen was looking at her with a smile, but her eyes were gentle, but she didn't have the slightest intention of asking the teacher.

It's just that with Yang Jieyu's matter first, Shu E can't help but be surprised. Yang Jieyu's face always has a warm smile like the spring equinox?

"If my sister's complexion is also considered rough, then there is no word 'beauty' in the world." The queen laughed.

Shu E didn't know what the queen meant, so she had to say: "The slave doesn't dare to be a slave." ”

The queen looked at Shu E, lowered her eyes with a smile, looked at her hand soaked in flower dew and gently stirred up the ripples in the water, and said: "According to legend, the palace people in the Tang Palace went early to collect the dew on the petals early in the morning when the morning dawn was bright and the morning light was not spreading, which was used to wash their faces and cook tea. It is said that when the morning dew passes through the rising sun, the fragrance will inevitably fade. It's just that the flower dew picked out like that is good is good, but the fragrance is faint, and it can't last for a long time. In spring and summer, you can harvest fresh flower dew, but once it rains, snow, wind and frost, you can't ask for it. Nowadays, the palace is full of platinum, and all kinds of delicate petals are steamed into water, which is steamed again and again, and accumulates into fragrance. ”

Shu Ezhi said that this method is to put flowers in a vessel made of platinum for distillation, the incense in the petals is evaporated, mixed with the distilled water vapor, and the aromatic steam is re-condensed into a liquid, which is the flower dew.

As she spoke, the queen slowly lifted her hands from the silver basin, just to prevent the water from dripping on her body, and her hands were still not high from the basin. Xiaolu, who was standing on the side, was holding a plate, and Chenshuang hurriedly lifted a snow-white handkerchief, grabbed the queen's hand from the palm of her hand, and gently wiped the water droplets on the back of her palm. Then put on a piece of soft silk and wipe it carefully.

The queen looked at her right hand, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed it gently, and smiled at Shu E: "In this way, it can be regarded as retaining a touch of incense that passed away in a hurry." ”

Shu E looked at the queen quietly, listening to her say the origin of the flower dew, for some reason, she always felt that the queen's behavior was purely natural, not like she was testing something. And the queen's every move, every word and smile, has a charm that ordinary women can't match. - No, like Shun Jieyu, Yang Jieyu, Qin Meiren, Shangcairen, as well as Lu Chungui, Lin Zitong and even Dong Qingning, Liao Jingzhi, Liu Zhi, these women are all thousands of selected ladies and heroines, how can they be ordinary women?

The queen smiled faintly at Shu E, sat upright again, and Zhanxi had already brought tea here. The queen smiled and said, "Sister Lao has been waiting for so long, let's taste the tea cooked by Zhanxi first." ”

It turned out that Fang Zhanxi walked out of the hall shortly after bringing Shu'e in, but he was making tea. Shu E looked at the color of this tea like a faded rouge, a well-proportioned pale pink, like a girl's shy pink cheeks. Rushing to the face, there was an intoxicating sweet fragrance, Shu E smiled: "This is Hanlian dew." ”

The queen smiled slightly: "Sister has good eyesight, the bottom of this lotus petal is very white, but the top half is gradually turning red, and the top point is even more red and beautiful." This flower is originally called 'Falling Glow', also known as 'Drunken Hibiscus'. Compared to the dew I gave my sister, this color is better. ”

When Shu E heard the word "drunk", her heart couldn't help but jump. She is not a sensitive person, but there are too many changes in the palace, but she can't help but be imprudent. What's more, getting drunk in the bitter bamboo forest is really an indelible shadow in Shu'e's heart.

The queen looked at the intoxicating pale red in the fine porcelain thin white tea bowl on the table, and said slowly: "I heard that this drunken hibiscus was originally a different species found by chance in a group of white lotuses, and it is extremely rare. White Lotus's drunken face was a rare beauty, but it also caused undue disasters. As he spoke, he set his eyes on Shu E.

Shu E will never be a fake, and after listening to the queen's words, her face has changed color.

The queen saw the stunned shyness in Shu E's eyes, and said with a straight face: "However, my sister is still suspicious of the events of that day?" ”

Shu E got up, bowed down and said, "The slave just doesn't want anyone to be wronged. ”

The queen said slowly: "Many of the famous wines in the palace come from the concubine's family. I heard that Gonghui [Note] The general guarded Cangzhou back then, and he had a lot of different kinds of flowers, and used them to make wine, which was really fragrant and famous. ”

Shu E's lips twitched slightly, and she wanted to speak, but she finally didn't say it.

The queen looked at Shu E and nodded lightly, and said, "What you expected is good!" General Gonghui is Zhang Xuangui, the general of the Xiaocai Guard, who was personally appointed by Emperor Taizong during the Taiping Xingguo period. Zhang Gong's granddaughter has a double name Xuanyin, a small character Zhuoqin, and Zhang Gong's mansion pays tribute to the palace every year, which is the Yingyu wine that Shu E once drank. ”

Shu E couldn't help but look at the tea ordered by Han Lian Qinglu on the table, and there was a puzzled look in her eyes.

The queen said: "Sister, don't worry, Yingyu wine is so intoxicating, but it is not the work of this drunken hibiscus. This is the new flower dew in Suzhou and Hangzhou this year, and I was going to distribute it to each room. Fang Cai Zhanxi heard that his sister liked to eat flower dew, so he used this to order tea. The queen motioned for Shu E to sit down, and said, "My sister refuses to let her subordinates die unjustly, that is because you are kind and kind." The position did not forget this matter, so that when he saw a bottle of drunken hibiscus flower dew, he was so solemn and vigilant, and even brought up the old things with his sister today, firstly, he did not want anyone to take advantage of the situation and do whatever it took to compete for favor, and he could not tolerate someone to do anything that harmed the emperor in the slightest. ”

[Note] Congratulations: General Zhang Mei, at the beginning of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, was named General Zuo Xiaowei. Nickname compliments.