Since the queen mother went to the palace to recuperate, the large and small banquets in the palace have been put on hold, and Empress Xu is from an ordinary background, from the people, and she is not very concerned about these things, and the emperor favors her and temporarily withdraws these old examples.

For Empress Xu, there is a lot less discomfort, more casual, but for the courtiers, it is difficult to see the face of the new queen, yes, in the past three years, there are very few people outside the palace who have seen the true face of Empress Xu.

For many years, the Imperial Garden has been a place for the palace concubines to rest and watch and worship the Buddha. The general banquet in the palace will be held in the Baohe Palace, such as the palace banquet hosted by the middle palace is set up in the imperial garden, and now the biggest person in charge of the harem is the queen mother who has returned, and this banquet is naturally dominated by the queen mother.

On the second day of the first month of March, Shoukang Palace, the concubines of Xiyuan came to greet the Queen Mother as usual.

The Queen Mother's face is getting better and better now, and her spirit looks no worse than that of the young palace concubine. In addition to returning to the court to take power, another reason is that Concubine Jing is pregnant again after Concubine Xian, not to mention whether she is a prince or not, so one after another is a good sign.

The warbler and swallow at the bottom, wearing a skirt and hairpin, although they each stood with their heads bowed and did not speak, it was so lively to watch. The Queen Mother sat on the throne at the top, and then she felt that there were many beauties in Xiyuan, but none of them could make the emperor pay attention.

She glanced at Concubine Jing again, and now she didn't see any signs of pregnancy, she was demure and dignified, and her posture was slender, as if she was graceful. Such a woman has an identity and status, she is a leader in every aspect, she thinks that this should be able to keep the emperor's heart, at least let the emperor know that she is much stronger than Xu Ying.

But even this one failed to keep the emperor.

The Queen Mother retracted her gaze, and a quiet and majestic voice sounded in the palace: "The mourning family knows that you are all filial, and tomorrow's banquet will definitely fully cooperate with Concubine Xian." People like to be lively when they are old, but in this palace all the year round, we can only hear insects and birds, and we are also touched by the popularity outside the palace. Concubine Xian has worked hard, and she is only busy tomorrow. The eldest prince has to send more people, and no matter how busy he is, he has to take care of the grandson of the mourning family. ”

Concubine Xian replied respectfully: "Thank you for the love of the queen mother, the concubines are saved, and with the help of your sisters, you won't be tired." But you have to rest well today, and tomorrow I am afraid that there will be a lot of foreign women, who have been looking forward to seeing you for more than a day or two. ”

The other concubines and concubines all nodded in response, and although the Queen Mother knew that they were all promises, they were very useful.

"Okay, the mourning family knows that you are all happy to coax me, an old woman, so go down."

Everyone retreated gently in turn, but Concubine Jing, who remained at the end, waited until there was no one else before she began to move. The Queen Mother looked at it, and a sneer suddenly appeared at the corner of her mouth.

As soon as she left the Shoukang Palace, Concubine Xian slowed down and waited for Concubine Shu, who had never said a word, to approach and said, "My sister seems to be very favored by the emperor these days, and I heard that the emperor has recruited her sister several times in a row. I have known the emperor since childhood, but since he gave birth to the eldest prince, he has stopped seeing me, can you ask my sister if there is any trick here? ”

Concubine Shu glanced at it, she smiled earnestly, as if she was really just asking for help, but after being in the palace for a few years, who is Concubine Xian, how could Concubine Shu not know.

Concubine Shu said in a light tone as always: "Sister misunderstood, the emperor is looking for a concubine just for the sake of Zhongding Bofu, after all, Zhongding Bofu has always served the royal family, as the daughter of the Xue family, she will naturally be treated by the emperor with some courtesy." On the other hand, sister, the emperor is even more gracious to you, and the He family has been taking care of the emperor for many years. ”

Concubine Xian was not interesting, but she was not annoyed, she thought that Concubine Shu was just like herself, and it was already yesterday's yellow flower, and it was impossible for the emperor to pay more attention to Concubine Jing and take a second look at Concubine Shu. Thinking of this, she turned back to look at Concubine Jing and found that she was walking alone at the end.

The corners of Concubine Xian's mouth are slightly upturned, like an arc of irony, what's the use of being so careful, even if she gives birth to the little prince successfully, she will only be taken away by the Queen Mother, depending on whether you are the Anguo Mansion or the Zhenguo Mansion, the emperor can't stand on your side, not to mention, in the end, even if the child is given to the Queen Mother, it may not be able to survive smoothly, who knows the emperor's thoughts.

She turned her head slowly, but her mood was happy, until this time she knew the reason why the emperor let the queen mother return to the palace smoothly, but it was a pity that she had suffered such a big loss

Xue Zhenzhen's letter quickly replied, and sure enough, as expected, in addition to the ladies and elders of the family who entered the palace, it didn't hurt to bring one or two more people, and the invitation was just specially distributed by the lady in the palace who wanted to go.

The aromatherapy institute was overjoyed when it got the news, so it hurriedly went to Mingzhuxuan and Chenguang Courtyard to borrow two sets of new clothes. Coincidentally, Mrs. Fu asked people to send the new spring clothes to the ladies in each yard.

It just so happened that the sisters had just arrived in Mingzhuxuan, and Fu Xiangqing was picking up clothes here.

"Yo, this is a new one made in the garment room?" As soon as she entered the house, she saw Fu Xiangqing glancing at the sets of clothes, and Fu Shuyuan spoke.

"No, my mother was careful, and deliberately asked them to come out before tomorrow." Because it is available in every yard, Fu Xiangqing is not shy about it.

Fu Shuyuan said: "Our sister originally wanted to come to Ming Zhuxuan to borrow two sets of tomorrow's use that you don't wear, but we caught up with this, so we don't have to trouble my sister." ”

Fu Xiangqing just ordered the girls to accept it, and when she heard this, she said: "Why didn't my sister say it earlier, I didn't wear it here or only wore it once, there are a lot of sets, just because I always follow my mother out to socialize, she ordered someone to do a lot more for me on weekdays, Sister Shuyuan and Sister Shuxian are about the same size as me, I think I can wear them." ”

Fu Shuyuan was just about to go back, but Fu Shuxian spoke up first: "Then there is Sister Lao, my sister and I are also afraid that we will lose face to our Fu family tomorrow, so forget it, I am afraid of affecting my sister and other sisters." ”

"Oh, that's it," Fu Xiangqing gestured to Cui Yu, and immediately went down, "Actually, there's nothing to be afraid of, just follow me or my mother, my mother will also go tomorrow, and there will be no mistakes with the elders acting in front." ”

Cui Yu came with several sets of spring clothes of different colors and patterns, although they were not newly made this year, but the color looked like they had just been made.

Fu Xiangqing beckoned the two of them to come forward to choose, and Fu Shuyuan smiled embarrassedly and picked up with Fu Shuxian.

In the end, the two of them each chose two sets of clothes with different colors and patterns embroidered satin, Fu Xiangqing ordered someone to wrap them and handed them to their respective girls, and said: "When you enter the palace tomorrow, remember to let the people below prepare an extra set so that you don't have to change it when it gets dirty." ”

The two thanked themselves again.

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