It was getting dark, and the snow had stopped.

Lin Yan and Cheng's Zheng and others had already gone back, Lin Yan looked at the eyes that were lying on the Taishi's chair with her eyes closed and already asleep, stirred the charcoal in the brazier and let them burn, and then walked to the window and closed the window.

Zhuang walked in from outside at this time, and when he saw Mrs. Zhuang sleeping inside, he frowned and said, "Why did you sleep here?" ”

Lin Yan turned her head by the window and said with a smile: "I just told my mother-in-law, second sister-in-law, third sister-in-law and others the story of the past days with my grandfather, and now I'm afraid I'm tired." ”

Lin Yan paused as she spoke, and then said, "Mother, my grandmother misses my grandfather." ”

Zhuang sighed, walked over and picked up the mattress that had slipped off Mrs. Zhuang's body and covered it again.

Mrs. Zhuang seemed to feel consciousness at this time, her eyes were half-open, and when she saw her daughter, she said in a confused manner: "Informant, I just dreamed of your father." She muttered again: "Your father has been gone for so long, and I don't know how he is doing down there, he is the person who will not take care of himself." We made an appointment to let him wait for me on the Nai He Bridge, but I don't know if he waited, whether he would wait too long to wait for me, so he ran to reincarnate by himself. He had to wait for me to tell him that although I did not give him a son, I gave him a good daughter, and our daughter got married and lived happily, and gave us four lovely and intelligent grandsons, two of whom looked like sons-in-law, and two granddaughters who looked like string girls...... It's been more than 20 years. ”

As he spoke, the corners of his eyes were moistened for a while, and then he closed his eyes again and fell asleep with his head sideways.

Zhuang wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes for her, then patted her gently, and said, "Yes, Daddy can't bear you, he won't die if he can't wait for you, so don't worry." ”

Lin Yan quietly walked to Zhuang's side, Zhuang's sighed, and said, "In the past two years, your grandmother seems to be sober and confused for a while, but in fact, I know that she has always been sober in her heart." She couldn't let me go before, but she always wanted to be reunited with your grandfather sooner. ”

Zhuang said, his eyes were a little moist, and there was a strong worry about Mrs. Zhuang.

Lin Yan gently patted her mother's shoulder, and Zhuang reached out to grab her daughter's hand.

After a while, she wiped the corners of her eyes, and then said to Lin Yan: "Your grandmother is looking for you, you go and find your grandmother, I will watch your grandmother's side." ”

Lin Yan nodded, and then left for Funing Hall.

Li was directing the maid to pack up the clothes that would enter the palace to receive the banquet on the winter solstice tomorrow, and when he saw Lin Yan coming in, he beckoned to her, then shook her hand, and said to her: "On such a cold day, why don't you put on a big hat." "I wasn't relieved until I was sure that her hands weren't cold and that she wasn't cold.

Lin Yan said: "I'm not cold, the clothes on my body are thick." Then he asked, "What is the matter with my grandmother calling her granddaughter?" ”

Li Shi said to the maid who was packing up her clothes: "Okay, let's do it, sweep the dust off the clothes, and then smoke it at night." After speaking, he took Lin Yan's hand, and Lin Yan helped him into the inner room.

Li said as he walked: "Tomorrow is the winter solstice, and the internal and external wives will receive the banquet in the palace, and it is also the first big occasion after you set the queen, you must show your face in front of everyone." If something happens to you at the palace banquet tomorrow, do you know how to deal with it? ”

Lin Yan said: "The granddaughter listened to her grandmother's advice. ”

Li said: "First of all, the first one, when you enter the palace tomorrow, you will definitely meet those concubines of the emperor, these are the women you will have to deal with in the future." The other concubines are okay to say, how can they be afraid of the Lin family and your identity as the queen in the future. But Wu Guifei has always acted a little arrogantly, and the Wu family has a long-standing grudge with our Lin family, if she deliberately wants to embarrass you, what should you do? ”

Lin Yan said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth." ”

Li Shi said again: "Although you will be the queen in the future, but now you don't have any identity after all, what if Wu Guifei wants you to make a great gift to the monarch?" ”

Lin Yan said: "I am a courtier, she is a concubine, and it is right to salute her." ”

Li Shi asked again, "What if she bows down to you to bow to the queen?" ”

Lin Yan said: "Accept it generously, and then give her the courtesy of a monarch and a minister." ”

Li nodded with satisfaction, Lin Yan's current identity is not easy to deal with when she is in the palace, if she is tough, it will leave people with a sense of domineering, and if she is modest, it will make people think that she is weak and easy to bully, which is not conducive to her control of other palace concubines after entering the palace, and she may also be pressed down by Wu Guifei, or it is just right to be strong or soft.

But this sentence is easy to say, but it may not be able to do both. Fortunately, Yuan Yuan is still a somewhat anxious and intelligent child, and he can see many things thoroughly.

Li asked Lin Yan some more questions, preset what might happen in the palace tomorrow, and asked Lin Yan to answer what she would do.

Lin Yan answered one by one, Li nodded when she was satisfied, and if she was not satisfied, she proposed what to do, and what the consequences would be if such a thing was not handled well, and then she mentioned some other things for her, popularizing some of the complicated relationships between women in and out of the palace now.

In fact, these things have always been popularized by the Li family, and the Qi family and the Zhuang family have often mentioned them, and Aunt Mu has also told her about the current situation in the harem, and she already has a general impression of these relationships. But I am afraid that more detailed things can only be known if I have experienced them myself, seen them with my own eyes, and heard them with my own ears.

The two ancestors and grandsons had been talking for nearly an hour, and then the Li family let Lin Yan go back and said to her: "Go back, have a good rest tonight, and only then will you have the energy to deal with the things at the palace banquet tomorrow." ”

Lin Yan said yes, and then said goodbye and left.

When she returned to her courtyard, Mu Qing had not rested, standing at the table in the hall, smiling at her.

Lin Yan called: "Aunt Mu." ”

Mu Qingwen smiled gently: "The slave maid made chestnut cake, does the fourth lady want to eat a little?" ”

Lin Yan nodded.

The chestnut cake made by Mu Qing is different from what others make, and it is always exceptionally delicious. After the emperor ascended the throne, Mu Qing followed her aunt from the palace into the palace, and she hadn't eaten the chestnut cake she made for many years, and she always missed it very much. She used to ask the cook to try to make it her way, but it always didn't taste right. It wasn't until the past few days that she had regained the familiar taste she once had.

Lin Yan held a piece of chestnut cake in her hand, chewed it in small bites, and asked her, "Aunt Mu, are you worried about my entry into the palace tomorrow?" ”

Mu Qing shook his head and said, "The fourth young lady is very smart, and the slave is not worried. ”

Lin Yan didn't believe it, but she didn't say anything more.

And at this moment, Mu Zhi came in from outside and said to Lin Yan: "Miss, Mother Gui just asked to see you outside the mansion, I brought her in, and she is now at the gate of the courtyard." ”