On June 8, Yongyuan, the Queen Mother's Thousand Autumn Festival came.

There is a group of joy in the palace, from the main gate of Changle Palace, spread a hundred-zhang long red ground longevity flower pot carpet straight to the Yongshou Palace, the palace people step on it to come and go, prepare for the feast of the Thousand Autumn Festival.

After making five drums that day, the emperor led the concubines and courtiers to visit the queen mother in the front hall, and the queen mother sat firmly on the red sandalwood seat of Luan Feng carved in the drum music, and accepted the visit of the Son of Heaven and all the people. Shen Shuzhao was hidden in the back cabinet, and she and the other palace people of the Queen Mother waited here, silently watching the actions of everyone outside the Shark Silk Baoluo tent.

Then everyone began to offer birthday gifts, most of the birthday gifts are jade, embroidery, exotic flowers and other exquisite longevity products, implying the meaning of "longevity without borders, Hongfu monstrous". After the dedication, the emperor personally took a pouch woven of silk and decorated with a golden mirror ribbon, and said respectfully to the queen mother: "The son wishes the queen mother a thousand years of success, and finally offers this thin gift to hope that the queen mother will be happy." ”

The Queen Mother took it and untied the silk sac, and suddenly the objects inside were golden and translucent, and the light reflected her surroundings as if it were showing the light of the sky. Shen Shuzhao held her breath, she couldn't believe it-Your Majesty, he actually gave the Queen Mother a fake jade seal! I saw that the precious thing carved its body with golden topaz, with a unicorn as a stamp button, the beast's mouth was slightly open, and the joints of the limbs were decorated with vortex patterns, which looked like the jade seal before the queen mother, but it was not a hologram!

"Son of Heaven, he ......" Shen Shuzhao couldn't help but read out loud, and finally she endured the words she was about to blurt out. The Son of Heaven's mind is the most uncertain, he took back the jade seal in the heart of the Queen Mother, and returned a jade seal on her birthday, as long as he seals it down, the jade seal without power can be immediately entitled! Who can guarantee that the current imperial treasure is a dead thing? She looked at the ministers, and sure enough, Prime Minister Xiao and Taiwei Chen were embarrassed.

The Queen Mother cried with joy and hugged the emperor: "My son is sensible, and the mourning family is very pleased!" Now the mourning family only hopes that you can stabilize the country, Shi Huaixiong wants to be strategic, don't listen to what the traitor says, and the mourning family will feel at ease! ”

"The queen mother has been working hard for several years with her own son, and she really can't repay her kindness, and she is ashamed. Now that I hear my mother's words, I will definitely remember them. ”

After speaking, the mother and son hugged each other, and the scene was moving.

Shen Shuzhao turned back to the historian who was holding a pen and was stunned by the jade seal: "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and make a note of it. ”

Shi Guan came back to his senses and wrote down the moment. Shen Shuzhao stepped forward and stopped reading the words "The Empress Dowager of Heaven is crying".

The historical records are all for the people in power to speak, one day, she will ask the historian to add such a sentence to this paragraph - "During the banquet, Xiao's complexion is different", as long as this sentence is enough to make the Xiao family more anti-minister image in the later history, not to mention...... This is still a fact.

The eldest princess Wei Yang cried when she saw it in the audience: "The queen mother treats the emperor as her own, she has been kind and virtuous for decades, and now the crisis of the Northern Huns has been solved. ”

Zhongchang put Guo Ju aside and echoed: "The Holy Mingjun, rule the harem with filial piety, govern the country with virtue, and the Wei Dynasty is really expected to be revived!" ”

Shen Shuzhao looked carefully at the person who spoke, he looked very young, but he was doing the position of delivering summons and managing documents for the emperor, she felt that this person must be a lot of weight in the court.

Wei Yang is speaking for the Queen Mother, and he is speaking for the Emperor, so she is convinced that all the actions in the palace today are prepared by the Queen Mother.

After the people who stepped down finished speaking, the historian lowered his head and took notes on this touching scene, and after the birthday ceremony and the visit, Shen Shuzhao stepped forward and helped the queen mother down with the palace people. The Queen Mother is full of spring, and it seems that the emperor is doing this very much to her heart.

"You should have met a circle of concubines and courtiers when you were serving just now, remember their identities and faces, and it will be of great use to you in the future." The Queen Mother patted the back of her hand, "You go back to serve your eldest sister first, and the dinner party is more important." ”

Shen Shuzhao said that she was going to say goodbye to the Queen Mother, and as soon as the Queen Mother left, she immediately turned back to find Wei Yang. In the midst of the people coming and going, she walked retrograde in the scattered crowd, and finally a familiar tall back appeared in front of her, Shen Shuzhao hurriedly walked over in small steps, and shouted softly to Wei Yang: "Eldest princess!" ”

Wei Yang turned around, and his gentle gaze fell on her. And on the opposite side of Wei Yang, it is a good concubine who has not been seen for a long time.

"Second Miss, I haven't seen you for a long time." The concubine spoke softly.

Wei Yang smiled: "Why are you here?" I thought you were with your eldest sister. ”

Shen Shuzhao's cheeks were slightly red when she heard this, and she didn't dare to say what was in her heart for a long time. Courtier, I just want to meet you...... She muttered silently to herself.

"Ah," the concubine quipped, "The palace is full of people who say that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess and the second lady have a deep sisterhood, and now it seems that it is true." ”

Wei Yang turned his head to look at her: "Why do you say that?" ”

Concubine Liang smiled: "The second lady is a big celebrity around the Queen Mother, and she usually follows the Queen Mother, and this time the Queen Mother should have brought her over." But the queen mother is gone, the second lady is still here, and the first person who comes out to find her is the eldest princess, can she not have a good relationship? ”

The unintentional words made both of them stunned, and then Shen Shuzhao quickly coughed lightly: "I...... Ahem, in fact, the courtiers are just ......"

Wei Yang gently grabbed her and put her head on his side, and then Wei Yang spit words in her ear: "But what? Could it be that the good concubine said no, right? ”

Shen Shuzhao had no intention of struggling at all, her face was flushed, and the good concubine looked at her like she wanted to refuse and welcome, and was stunned for a moment, not understanding why.

"It's a matter for a courtier to look for a princess......" she whispered weakly.

"What?"

"This is the ......"

Shen Shuzhao found that as long as she met Wei Yang, no matter how good her tongue was, it was like a knot, and when she met her eyes that were always straight and hooked, she always felt that her aura was half a point weaker.

"You," Wei Yang sighed and raised his finger to point at her forehead, "Gu and Liang Concubine are still going to visit the emperor now, you better go back first." ”

Then she turned her back and left, the concubine took out a handkerchief to cover the corners of her mouth, raised her eyebrows and glanced at Shen Shuzhao interestingly, and then left with Wei Yang.

Shen Shuzhao watched the two of them go away in a daze behind them, and saw the backs of the two beauties graceful, while Wei Yang's waterfall and green silk were scattered on the thin shoulders, every step was as sharp and calm as walking on still water, and the foundation of martial arts was obvious, not like the weak concubine beside her.

She was stunned......

The day of the first kiss was like a dream.

Just watched Wei Yang walk away, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time, and the moment when Wei Yang's dragonfly kissed her lips came to mind, she fell into deep thought, and a little eunuch saw that Shen Shuzhao couldn't stand for a long time, he looked at the door curiously, and then cleared his throat, stepped forward and asked respectfully: "Shen ...... Miss Shen Er? ”

Unexpectedly, Shen Shuzhao turned around and glared at him viciously, his heart tightened, thinking that he hadn't done anything offended? But Shen Shuzhao didn't say anything, just made her blush with anger, threw up her sleeves and turned to leave, and walked away from the front hall in a hurry, leaving the little eunuch with an inexplicable face.

What kind of anger is Miss Shen Er angry about, making her ears red?

After a while, Shen Shuzhao returned to Qinglian Pavilion, and all the palace maids listened to the order of the Queen Mother and waited beside Shen Zhuangzhao with their heads bowed and peaceful. She approached and saw that the palace maid was using a rhino horn jasper comb to comb Shen Zhuangzhao's flower bun, and left a hair tail under her sideburns, this kind of anti-curling sideburns is mostly used by palace concubines and noble women, while girls who have not left the pavilion need to leave a hair tail under the anti-curling bun, so that it hangs down behind the shoulders, called "swallowtail".

The eldest sister Shen Zhuangzhao saw Shen Shuzhao next to the corner of the mirror, Cui Wei's eyebrows were raised slightly, and her lazy hair fell on her shoulders at this time, adding a bit of amorous and hazy grace and softness. "Second sister, why are you here?"

Shen Shuzhao said: "The Queen Mother ordered me to stay by your side more today. ”

The palace maid next to her inserted a pearl exquisite eight-treasure hairpin into Shen Zhuangzhao's hairpin, and she helped the hairpin: "I have instructed everything, and I really don't need the second sister to work hard." ”

Shen Shuzhao endured it and said, "You just have to meet the saint at the birthday banquet." ”

"It's funny, isn't it possible that I only care about the banquet in my eyes?" After speaking, Shen Zhuangzhao knew that she was speechless, and the palace maids around her who were dressing her all paused for a moment, and she turned around and said, "You guys retreat first." ”

When the others dispersed outside the house, she stood up, the jewels on her body rattled, Shen Shuzhao watched her walk step by step, and then raised her head to look at herself: "As long as I am here, you will never become the imperial concubine." No matter what you say next to the Queen Mother, how close you are to the eldest princess, I will always be the first. ”

Shen Shuzhao looked at her coldly: "The first one may not always have good things. ”

"Shen Shuzhao, I will never understand you."

"I don't need you to understand."

Shen Zhuangzhao laughed: "Okay." Then I don't need to understand you anymore. ”

And Shen Shuzhao didn't pay attention to her, and when she turned around to leave, she said, "Since you don't want me to be here, then I'll leave." The moment she pushed open the door, she seemed to remember something, the hand on the door became a little hesitant, and the day when she entered the palace and walked into the darkness in her previous life appeared in front of her, the palace and the former dynasty were in a mess, and the interests of everyone were intertwined, and the whole body was moved, and the people of the Xiao family would not stop, whether it was in the government or in the harem, a conspiracy would always follow one after another. Sixteen years of getting along day and night, although they will always be cold to each other, but at this moment she doesn't know what complicated feelings are in her heart at this time, thinking of the possible danger, so she turned to Shen Zhuangzhao gloomily and said, "...... Eldest sister, take care. ”

"Take care?" Shen Zhuang Zhao was surprised,

An understatement, full of cold emotion.

Shen Zhuangzhao looked at her with a pair of beautiful eyes puzzled, and at this moment, there was a layer of incomprehensible complexity in the eyes of her second sister Shen Shuzhao, who could not guess and could not fathom the coldness, like the dark sea under thin ice, which made her deeply puzzled.

Shen Zhuangzhao didn't say anything, just watched her leave.

Shen Shuzhao walked out of the east wing, the sky was clear, and the sky of the palace was much larger than the four-corner mansion he saw when he looked up in the Shen Mansion, but he was still trapped here.

Several little eunuchs and palace maids walked over from the door of Qinglian Pavilion one after another, all holding a wooden box in their hands. When Shen Shuzhao saw them, she smiled, and those people came to her - the Queen Mother had already ordered, and when the female imperial chief and Gao Dezhong were serving in the front hall, the first was handed over to the second lady to deal with.

The palace maid opened the boxes one by one for her, and Shen Shuzhao walked over in front of them. The first box...... Purple bellflower petals, second box...... Blue delphinium petals, third box...... Pink and white phalaenopsis, the third box...... Red Dragonbed Flower, Fourth Box...... Empty box, fifth box...... A pebble was placed.

She stretched out her slender fingers, played with the stone in her hand, then grasped the stone tightly, smiled contemptuously, and ordered: "You take away all the pure purple, blue, pink and white clothes in the eldest lady's house." ”

When her gaze swept over Honghua's body, her heart suddenly ached.

There was the sound of the palace maid packing up her clothes in the house, and Shen Shuzhao said to the eunuch: "Go back, if the color of the clothes chosen by the other concubines changes, come over and report again." ”

After giving the order, after a while, she had to walk in again, when she saw that the skirt on Shen Zhuangzhao's body did not contrast, she nodded with satisfaction, and when she looked up, she touched Shen Zhuangzhao's expression of wanting to speak and stopped, and asked, "What else do you want to say?" ”

Shen Zhuangzhao bit his lip.

Seeing her like this, Shen Shuzhao raised her hand and asked the other palace maids to retreat. "Say it."

The people around them retreated, and only the two of them were left in the house.

Shen Shuzhao smiled calmly: "Say it." ”

"You ......" Shen Zhuangzhao squeezed the hosta in her hand, and after thinking about it, she endured it, but still said intermittently: "You and ...... Eldest princess, what's going on? Why did you ...... that day? She, ...... you pressed you to the bed? ”

Shen Shuzhao's smile stiffened on his face.

She took a few steps back and looked at Shen Zhuangzhao incredulously-

How do you remember this?!