In the afternoon, Ling Xi was wandering in the backyard of the Jiaofang Palace, she came to the pavilion by the pond in the backyard, leisurely drank the tea in her hand, looked at the lotus flowers in the pond full of buds, and smiled slightly. Ling Xi couldn't help but think that if he waited until midsummer, a courtyard of blooming lotus flowers would fill this huge backyard, adding a bit of elegance to this splendid Jiaofang Palace, which was really a bit poetic and picturesque.

She recalled that in the month she had been in the palace, since the night of the wedding, Xiang Hongxuan had not come to her Jiaofang Hall once, and even when she went to Feiyu Hall to greet him, she was politely invited back by Xiao Dezi, the chamberlain next to Xiang Hongxuan, and she didn't even see Xiang Hongxuan's face. It was Mama Qin, who was next to the Queen Mother, who came to Jiaofang Hall every day to tell her about the rules, and she finally finished talking about it yesterday.

Obviously, Xiang Hongxuan didn't want Ling Xi to appear in his emperor's life, and the queen mother was just using a subordinate to perfunctory her, and the mother and son didn't want to see her in essence. But that's fine, a terrible mother-in-law, and a husband who values appearance, the mother and son are secretly turbulent, what can Ling Xi do between the two of them?

Looking at it this way, her harem life is not too sad now, as long as she doesn't go to Hongxuanna to move around, people don't want to see her, and the queen mother rarely appears in her life, maybe this magnificent Jiaofang Palace is a good place to retire, at least better than the cold palace.

Suddenly, she thought of Ye Muzhi again, the news of her wedding should have spread to the border town, what would Ye Muzhi think? Will you blame her? Thinking of this, Ling Xi's heart ached faintly again, she was in the gazebo in a daze, unconsciously, her eyes gradually moistened, she sighed, and in the end she was responsible for him.

Ginkgo and Aunt An slowly approached Ling Xi's side with some fruits and pastries, Aunt An glanced at Ling Xi's moist eyes, and said softly: "Queen Mother, if the villain takes you to the Imperial Garden for a walk, your mood will be more comfortable." ”

"Forget it, if you encounter an unruly guard like that day again, it will be another shock." Ginkgo hurriedly rejected Aunt An's proposal, and she also saw Ling Xi's slightly red eyes. Aunt An thought that Ling Xi was secretly sad because His Majesty did not come to the Jiaofang Palace, so she encouraged Ling Xi to go to the Imperial Garden for a walk, maybe she could meet Xiang Hongxuan. But Ginkgo knew that Ling Xi didn't care if Xiang Hongxuan came at all, and she was afraid that her tears would be spilled on Ye Muzhi.

"The inner courtyard of the palace is heavily guarded, Wang Shaogongzi's situation is special, and Wang Shaogongzi was originally the chief of the guard guarding the outer palace, only if the queen mother has something to do with him, he will enter the harem, and under normal circumstances, there will be no men in the harem." Aunt An whispered.

Ling Xi also immediately turned his head, wiped the corners of his eyes with a silk handkerchief, adjusted his demeanor slightly, and said, "That means that this Wang Shao is not ordinary." ”

"This prince Wang Shao is the nephew of the Queen Mother and the youngest son of Lord Wang An, the right minister."

"I only heard that there is only one son in the right minister's family, that is, Wang Bo Gongzi in Tai Academy, and now he has also become the chief general in Xihuabian Town, why is there another Wang Shao Gongzi?"

Ling Xi remembered that the gentleman Wang Bo, the only son of the right minister Wang An, otherwise he would not be arrogant like that. But this Wang Shao son, she really hasn't heard of it.

"In fact, this is not a secret, everyone in the harem knows that Wang Shaogongzi was born to the outer room of the right minister, that is, an illegitimate child. There are not many sons of the right minister, so they also love Wang Shao Gongzi very much, although Wang Shao Gongzi can not enter the door of the right Xiangzi's mansion, but the adult begged the queen mother to find a position of halberd chief for Wang Shaogongzi, so that Wang Shaogongzi has no worries about food and clothing. Aunt An patiently explained to Ling Xi.

"Since Lord Youxiang loves this son so much, why don't you recognize him and let him enter the Wang family openly?"

"Queen Mother, do you know, at the beginning of the founding of the Dongyu Kingdom, the Empress Wusheng stipulated that the king and general of Dongyu would have a maximum of one wife and four concubines in his life, one wife and three concubines for the upper doctor's officials, one wife and two concubines for officials below the fifth grade, and one wife and one concubine for civilians in their lifetime. And a man must reach the year of his establishment, and only when he has no children can he take a concubine, and when he is not confused, he can take a concubine at will, but the number of concubines cannot exceed the number prescribed by the imperial court, otherwise the light ones will be degraded, and the heavy ones will be punished. ”

Ling Xi knows that there are strict requirements for men in Dongyu Kingdom to take concubines, basically the commoners are monogamous and monogamous, and most of the officials do not accept concubines, after all, when men reach the age of 40, they can't afford to marry concubines if they have the heart, so it is better not to take concubines, so they can still have a good reputation. However, the Xun noble family has always not acted according to the rules, generally these noble sons are in the room to raise some maids, if these maids give birth to heirs, they will be placed outside, and when they reach the age, they will marry the maids back as concubines, and the children will justifiably enter their own doors, just like Ling Zhu's biological mother Aunt Qiuzhu, she used to be Ling Xiao's roommate, and later was raised as an aunt.

"It is said that the right minister was romantic when he was young, and he married a lot of concubines, but the court has regulations, so the right minister raised the supernumerary concubines outside. When Wang Shaogongzi was born, in order to let Wang Shaogongzi enter the Wang's family, he wanted to lie that Wang Shaogongzi was born to one of his concubines. In fact, this kind of thing is nothing, but at that time the queen mother was still Wang Defei, and the first emperor was planning to promote her to the queen, and there was a royal historian who played the right minister to ignore the rules of the imperial court, which almost affected the queen mother's ascension to the throne, and later the queen mother ordered the right minister to never take Wang Shao Gongzi into the Wang family, and from then on Wang Shao Gongzi can only be the illegitimate son of the Wang family. ”

"Then this prince Wang Shao is tragic enough, obviously it is the life of the young master, but he finally got the body of a subordinate." Ginkgo said with some sadness.

"Although Prince Wang Shao can't enter the door of the Wang family, and he can't become an important minister of the previous dynasty, the Queen Mother and the Right Prime Minister treat him very preferentially, and they reward him a lot on weekdays, and his mansion is not necessarily much worse than the inner house of the third-grade officials in the city." Aunt An said lightly.

While speaking, a palace person hurriedly walked to the pavilion, saying that the queen mother urgently summoned Ling Xi to Yixiang Palace. Ling Xi frowned, what would happen if the Queen Mother wanted to see her at this time? She let out a long sigh, just now she was still thinking that such a dull day would be good, but now it seems that it is just her wishful thinking. Ling Xi didn't have time to think about it carefully, she quickly changed her outfit and walked towards Wang Yixiang's palace with Ginkgo.

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Before Ling Xi stepped into the inner hall of Yixiang Palace, he saw that the outside of Yixiang Palace was full of all kinds of wedding things, from the outer palace door to the inner hall, which looked a bit like a dowry, Ling Xi was full of doubts in his heart, he didn't hear Mama Qin say that there were unmarried princesses in the palace, what was so much dowry for?

Ling Xi looked suspicious, as soon as she walked into the inner hall, she was frightened by the scene in front of her, and she couldn't help but stop. I saw Qi Meiren and Yang Meiren wearing wedding red clothes, kneeling in front of the Queen Mother with heavy makeup.

"Queen Mother, the concubine knows that she is wrong, and the concubine will be behaving in the future, you can let the concubine go."

Qi Meiren slammed her head on the ground, begged the Queen Mother for mercy with a handful of nose drops and tears, her reddish forehead, and the beautiful face that cried flowers, people couldn't feel the beauty of pear blossoms with rain at all, Yang Meiren also kept begging for mercy on the side, her makeup was not much better, a pair of living beauties, looking like a ghost crying wolf and howling ugly.

"Hey, what are you doing here, you have been crying with good makeup, and it won't look good when you go into the cave room." The Queen Mother seemed to be distressed, picked up the silk handkerchief in her hand and wiped away the tears on Qi Meiren's face.

"Mama Qin, ask the palace people to make up the makeup of the two brides again, and it will be the next auspicious time." The Queen Mother turned around and asked Mama Qin to come, and Mama Qin immediately called the palace people to take Qi Meiren and Yang Meiren to the inner room to make up their makeup. Qi Meiren inadvertently saw Ling Xi in the inner hall, she broke free from the palace people, ran to Ling Xi, fell to her knees with a pop, and prostrated in front of Ling Xi's feet, hugging one of Ling Xi's legs tightly.

"The queen mother saves the concubines, the queen mother is going to marry us out of the palace, the queen mother begs you, help us plead for mercy."

Ling Xi was stunned, she heard it right, although the two beauties of Qi and Yang are not high, they are also famous and prestigious women in Xiang Hongxuan's harem, and the Queen Mother actually wants to marry them out of the palace, isn't this disrespectful to Xiang Hongxuan? This green hat is firmly buckled on Xiang Hongxuan's head, Ling Xi dares to pack a ticket, Xiang Hongxuan must not know, otherwise whoever wants to live will take a green hat, and wear it at once.

"You don't have to ask the queen, the queen is here to give you a marriage, so you can marry with peace of mind today."

The Queen Mother's voice faintly reached Ling Xi's ears, so it was, the Queen Mother urgently recruited her, this is to make her this wicked person who marries a concubine to the emperor. However, Ling Xi thought about it, it was indeed inconvenient for her mother-in-law to come forward to remarry her son's concubine, of course, it was reasonable for her wife to do it.

"I want to see Your Majesty, Your Majesty will not agree to us marrying out of the palace, we are palace concubines, beauties personally sealed by Your Majesty, the Queen Mother can't be so reckless."

Qi Meiren didn't know where the momentum came from, she broke free from the palace people who helped her up, and she roared at the queen mother.

"Don't think about it, Your Majesty will talk to the right minister in the Flying Feather Hall all day today, the mourning family has ordered the palace people to lock the gate of the West Courtyard, Your Majesty will not come."

As soon as she heard the Queen Mother's words, Qi Meiren immediately sat down on the ground like a deflated ball, and the palace people stepped forward and dragged her and Yang Meiren into the inner room.

The Queen Mother slowly walked in front of Ling Xi, she looked at Ling Xi, who was a little panicked, and a friendly smile leaked from her face.

"The queen has worked hard, so I'll bother you to send the two beauties out of the palace later." The Queen Mother said proudly.