The practice in the palace, the four festivals of cold food, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chongyang Festival, are all feasted in Wenyao Palace.

Wen Yao Palace is in the previous dynasty, but in order to facilitate the concubine to go, there is a special corridor to communicate, and it is usually heavily locked and locked, and it is only opened layer by layer during festivals.

The corridor is long and narrow, with high palace walls on both sides, and every dozen steps, there are a pair of chest-high clay jars, filled with water to prevent fires.

On this day, two more pots of osmanthus bonsai were placed next to the water tank to meet the season.

The fragrance of elegant cinnamon is pervasive, and the incense of all the palace concubines is suppressed, smelling sweet, mixed with the smell of water vapor, which dilutes the cold and depressing of Yongdao that has not seen the sun all year round, and dilutes it a lot.

When the road was exhausted, a door came out, and the outside suddenly opened up, but it was the queen of Wen Yao Palace. Court.

The palace halls, especially those of the previous dynasty, are not allowed to grow near the house in order to prevent assassination. The guards stood under the porch, and it was clear at a glance that it was safe.

Therefore, you can already see the palace window of Wenyao Palace here.

In the vast courtyard, on the floor tiles carved with white marble entwined branches, there are many bonsai, mainly osmanthus chrysanthemums, surrounded by other flowers that bloom at this time, fragrant, and even attracted a few bee butterflies that had disappeared to surround them.

If it weren't for the west wind, it would be as straight as spring.

"Our real concubine." The concubine who came down from the chariot looked around, raised her eyebrows, and heard Jia Chongyuan, who came up behind her to hold her hand, mutter, "It's really a good hand to throw money!" In previous years, the queen presided over the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. The courtyard is never moving, and the place where no one comes here is so extravagant. ”

After all, this place is exclusively for the concubines, who dares to enter by mistake?

Queen Ji was born rich and noble, but she has no penchant for profligacy, so she is making a fuss in front of her, and she will not move here.

Now this eye-catching flower is full of flowers, and eighty percent is the meaning of the cloud wind fence.

"That's what you say now." Concubine Zheng Guifei was supported by Jia Chongyuan, there was no smile in her eyes, but the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, "When I went to visit Xuanqing Palace, I was very attentive!" ”

"Niangniang......" Jia Chongyuan explained curtly, "that's not ...... Isn't that trying to find out what the real concubine is? ”

At the beginning, Yun Fenghuang was acting with the emperor, and suddenly called himself sick, Wei Hengyan took advantage of the situation to force the queen of the palace under the misunderstanding, and the concubine Ying Concubine Yue Xiuyuan had enough backers, so she was unmoved.

Lu Chongyi, Jia Chongyuan and Xue Jieyu didn't hold on, and finally followed Wei Hengyan to Xuanqing Palace.

For this reason, Jia Chongyuan has been changing her ways to please Concubine Zheng in the past few days, hoping that she can not remember the villain's mistakes, but forgive herself but can't stop the pressure.

It's just that the concubine has been indifferent, and she doesn't say to forgive her, nor does she say that she doesn't forgive, she should accept it diligently, but when Jia Chongyuan was happy, she coldly stabbed a few words, making her panic again.

Jia Chongyuan has been worried for a few days, and she is a little used to it now......

At this moment, seeing that the concubine seemed to be smiling, she licked her face and continued to hold her arm: "Niangniang carefully stepped." ”

Compared to her pulling down her face to act as a palace maid to please Concubine Zheng Guifei, Lu Chongyi was much more indifferent to Concubine Ying, just walking in the team in a decent manner, and she didn't even look at Concubine Ying.

It's no wonder that although Jia Chongyuan's father and brother's official positions are not low, they were all promoted by Zheng Gu and belong to Zheng Gu's lineage, she is in front of Zheng Guifei, so she naturally can't straighten her waist; Lu Chongyi's father-in-law, Marquis Qingping, is the current father-in-law of the regent, and the title is still above Zhaowubo, but he doesn't need to be too welcoming to Concubine Ying.

even resented Concubine Ying for not supporting herself, so she had to be soft with Concubine Zhen......

A group of concubines walked into the main hall with different thoughts.

Wenyao Palace is built differently from all palaces because it is specially used for banquets and drinks, but it is modeled after the pattern of ancient times: the top is a high platform, with a roof on the platform and four pillars to support; The high platform sits in the north and faces south, and there are two corridors in the east and west

, said to be a corridor, is actually a place where guests sit; In the middle of the high platform, there is an open space, and the original floor tiles are paved with a layer of stone blue bottom pinched gold silk and chrysanthemum flowers, which is a place for people to perform singing, dancing and juggling.

The corridor connecting the east and west corridors in the south is a place where the palace people and the ministers and attendants who entered the palace to attend the banquet were on standby.

Because of this festival, the elders of the clan will have to attend, and the east and west corridors are very wide, and there are probably servants in the middle to block the view, and there are no curtains under the corridor, and only the seats are arranged according to the left and right of men and women.

When the concubine led the concubines and concubines into the corridor on the right and took their seats, under the corridor opposite, there were already many officials, looking at the position, the official positions should not be very high, otherwise they should be waiting for the regent, Zheng Gu, and Cui Wan at the gate of the palace at this time, and they arrived.

"The bottom ones?" Concubine Zheng was not interested in these officials, but looked at the seat near the south corridor, raised her chin, and asked in a low voice, "Can you inquire clearly?" are all talented and beautiful and have never been married? ”

Nodding left and right: "The family specially arranged for someone to go to see it, and the worst one is also with good eyebrows and eyes, although he is shorter, but that person is a talented man in Shuzhong, and even has the name of 'Little Zero Mountain'." ”

Mr. Lingshan Wei Changkong, no matter how the world evaluates his behavior of abandoning filial piety back then, there is nothing to talk about this person's talent.

is also a person in Shuzhong, and can get the nickname of "Little Zero Mountain", which shows that it is full of talents.

The concubine said "um": "Little Lingshan? It seems that the person who gave him this nickname was not ordinary jealous of him, but he really had the ability. ”

Everyone knows the purpose of the emperor's Kaienke, at this time, there is a scholar who is called Xiao Lingshan, I can't say, Chunjia heard it, and thought of Wei Changkong, but if there is the slightest taboo, the future of this scholar can be imagined!

This shows that he is afraid of other people's talents, and he deliberately uses this method to judge people's future.

Concubine Zheng chuckled, didn't ask any more, only picked up the tea and sipped it slowly.

She was quite annoyed at the moment, the reason why she brought the concubines here was that according to the time given by Yun Fenghuan, she originally thought that Yun Fenghuan had not come to Yanlan Palace to meet and come over like everyone else, and she should be here to greet her in person and accompany her to the table.

In this way, the position is revealed, and the upper and lower levels are humble.

As a result, they came, but this real concubine didn't see anyone at all?!

Concubine Zheng only woke up when she arrived at the main hall, Yun Fenghuang was deliberate: she presided over the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and Empress Ji's face had already been beaten, but the real concubine was not satisfied, so she arranged for the concubine to arrive early, and she went to the Empress Dowager Yuan or simply followed the emperor, and came back later.

In this way, everyone in the palace saw that the responsibilities and powers that originally belonged to the queen were handed over to the real concubine, not to mention, even the concubine had to arrive in advance and wait for the real concubine!

…… Even if the concubine is waiting for the queen mother and Chunjia on the bright side, anyone who cares will understand that the queen and concubine are difficult to compete with the rise of the real concubine, and the wind direction of the six palaces is about to change.

Since Chunjia ascended the throne, the tacit understanding that family background determines status will be replaced by the emperor's favor to determine dignity and humility.

This meant the triumph of imperial power.

Concubine Zheng Guifei was stumbled by Yun Fenghuang openly and secretly during this time, so that she regretted that she had found Yun Fenghuang to form an alliance at the beginning, although she couldn't keep her pregnancy, and she had already decided to use this to pull a high-ranking concubine into the water, but if she didn't choose Concubine Shu at the beginning, if Concubine Shu was there, even if Empress Dowager Yuan and Chunjia wanted to support their cronies, how could they get Yun Fenghuan's turn?

How should it be a concubine!

And although Concubine Shu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is used to being virtuous and virtuous, and her actions are always gentler than being as merciless as Yun Fenghuang.

She had mixed feelings in her heart, and she didn't know how long it had been, and she was pushed left and right, so she left the table with everyone in the palace to bow down and greet the Empress Dowager and Emperor Chunjia.

Chunjia specially went to the Chunyun Palace to accompany the Empress Dowager Yuan, and Yun Fenghuang used the excuse of helping the Empress Dowager's staff to dress up in the Chunyu Palace early in the morning, so it was natural to accompany him at this time.

Everyone worshiped the queen mother and the emperor, although she was two steps behind, but the slower ones actually knelt down for her.

Not to mention the mood of these people, Chunjia sat down on the highest platform of the Empress Dowager Yuan, and whispered to add a seat to Yun Fenghuan under himself, and someone asked in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, why haven't the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother come yet?" ”

"Uncle Lao Huang asked." Chunjia glanced at the person who asked, and said calmly, "Queen Qu's mother has been recuperating for a long time and doesn't like to make noise, so I sent someone to talk to Queen Yuan's mother this morning, and I won't be here today; As for the queen, her old illness recurred two days ago, so that this festival banquet was all handled by the real concubine and Kunze. Today, of course, I can't be there. ”

The regent said: "The lord of Kunze has also grown up, and he can share his worries for His Majesty." ”

didn't mention the credit of Yun Fenghuan, and then said, "On the side of the emperor's throne, there has always been only ......"

"Lord Wang." Before she finished speaking, Empress Dowager Yuan suddenly opened her mouth with a smile, pointed to Yunfenghuang, and said gently, "The mourning family is not very good these days, and this child has always served, and today is a feast, the mourning family is happy, and Tete came, so I want this child to serve ...... by the side."

"Since it is the meaning of the Queen Mother, the minister has nothing to say." The regent frowned, he didn't want Yun Fenghuang to replace the queen and sit on the throne.

This is not only because he learned that Yun Fenglian bullied Concubine Ying and Lu Chongyi in the palace, but also because he had decided to take advantage of this festival banquet to beat Chunjia.

Of course, in view of the fact that Chunjia is not a soft persimmon now, the regent doesn't want to do things too desperately, lest the relationship between the two sides be stiff and there will be no room for mediation, and when the time comes, the cheap one is not an outsider?

So I planned to start with Yun Fenghuang, the real concubine who has been hot recently, and let her sit under the corridor Originally, if Chunjia refuted, he would have prepared a lot of words, but he didn't expect Empress Dowager Yuan to interject, and mentioned that she was not in good health and needed this concubine who had been serving to take care of her nearby.

The regent knew the status of Empress Dowager Yuan in Chunjia's mind, so he couldn't say anything.

After all, Chunjia is his nephew in terms of seniority, and he relies on the old to sell the old a little, and it is okay to pay it back; The Empress Dowager Yuan is his equal, or a female dependent, in front of everyone's eyes, if he repeatedly argues with the Empress Dowager...... It's really not appropriate.

It's also easy to be hated by Chunjia.

Therefore, the regent had no choice but to silence.

Yun Fenghuang glanced at him out of the corner of his eyes and sat back, pursed the corners of his mouth, sat down on the seat that the palace people quickly added, and turned his head to show a sweet smile to the Empress Dowager Yuan.

…… In fact, she didn't plan to sit on the high platform before.

Mainly during this time, the queen mother and the emperor are enough to lift, the momentum is already there, and today she also designed to step on the concubine, there is no need to continue to pull hatred.

The queen is still there, and she sits in the position where the queen can sit, and she will be rumored in the direction of the adulterous concubine.

It's just that Chunjia didn't expect that Chunjia would take the initiative to let people set up a table for her, not to mention, Empress Dowager Yuan also helped assist.

Yun Fenghuan, who sat down, was grateful on his face, but he didn't have much joy in his heart, but wondered, is there any conspiracy for Chunjia and his son to do this?

Just as he was thinking about it, the regent sat down, and before the other courtiers could speak to ease the somewhat cold atmosphere, they approached the gate, when suddenly a figure who could not see clearly on the high platform got up and left the table, walked to the middle and bowed down, and said loudly: "The student thinks that what the regent said is very reasonable!" The real concubine has a flawed background, an improper family style, and is not worthy of being a concubine, let alone accompanying her? ! ”

The hall fell silent, and almost everyone looked at the regent.

And the regent looked dazed, and immediately, he thought of something, and glared angrily at Zheng Gu and Cui Wan who were under him.