Xue Peiqi and Xiao Tingchu happened to come at this time, and after saluting Emperor Hongyuan and Concubine Xiao Ya, they presented a meeting gift, Xiao Tingchu smiled while presenting, "Your Majesty, Niangniang, this is a kind of Ningshen incense that my brother got in Binzhou Taixiang a few days ago, called 'Huimengling', it is not a rare thing, but all the herbs and materials with this fragrance are produced locally in Jingnan Province, and all of them are fresh and soothing things recorded in "Shennong's Materia Medica", which are non-toxic and harmless, and are more reliable than those spices from the sea. What's more valuable is that this fragrance is very elegant, Chu Er thought that her aunt didn't like those strong smelling spices, and only occasionally used some tranquil incense, so she felt that this thing was suitable for you, so she brought it, but you don't blame Chu Er and Pei Qi for not taking good things to honor you. ”

Concubine Xiao Yafei took the box and looked at it, put it aside, and smiled at the two, "You have a heart, I really don't like incense very much, but this tranquil incense is indispensable, and now you still remember my preference, it's too late for me to be happy, what to blame!" Quick, don't stand, take a seat, come on, watch the tea. ”

Emperor Hongyuan did not put the emperor on the shelf in the palace of Concubine Xiao Ya, and now even if Xiao Tingxiu and Xue Peiqi were there, they were more casual, and after summoning a few chamberlains to take King Xin down, they chatted with Xiao Tingchu and Xue Peiqi, and asked about the recent situation of Xiao Hongming and Xiao Hongyi, and then praised Xiao Tingxiu, praising him for growing better than before, most of which is due to Xiao Tingchu's contributions. This made Xiao Tingchu embarrassed, and he didn't dare to raise his head with a red face.

was praising him, Emperor Hongyuan suddenly changed his words and said to Xue Peiqi, "Xue Aiqing entered the court this time, and it is rumored that it is stained with the light of the Xiao family, but in fact, Aiqing's governance achievements in Luo'an are all in my eyes, and outsiders don't understand it, so they don't need to take it to heart." It's just that since Aiqing has entered the court, she has to change her temperament in the past, and she can't do it anymore, otherwise the law of the country will be intolerable, and I won't be able to help you. ”

Xue Peiqi hurriedly got up and came out to salute and thank him, "Your Majesty's teachings, the ministers will keep it in mind." When the first ministers were young, they couldn't help but be impetuous and eager for quick success, so they lost their minds and were used. Fortunately, His Majesty Longen is only a small punishment and a big admonition to the ministers, of course, this painstaking minister understands, and in the future, he will definitely repay his kindness, and do his best to share the worries of His Majesty wholeheartedly, and there is no other way! ”

Emperor Hongyuan nodded, waved his hand and asked him to take a seat, Concubine Xiao Ya also changed the topic in time, and said to her personal palace maid An'er, "Your Majesty's tea is cold, go and change it to a new one, and make the newly purchased Zhaohong from the Internal Affairs Bureau." As soon as Concubine Xiao Yafei's words fell, Emperor Hongyuan called her to stop, "No need to be red, make a lamp in Longjing in early spring." ”

After An'er agreed, she quit her busy work, and Concubine Xiao Yafei persuaded, "Although Longjing is elegant, but green tea hurts the spleen and stomach, why bother." ”

Emperor Hongyuan took her hand and said with a smile, "Recently, my spirit has been a little weak, drink a cup of tea to refresh myself, otherwise I will become more and more sleepy." ”

Concubine Xiao Yafei sighed, "Every time you come from there, you are tired, and the concubine can't say anything, but you have to worry about your body after all." ”

Emperor Hongyuan saw that she was a little jealous, and he liked it more and more, and smiled with a smile, "I didn't do anything over there, but after falling asleep, I seemed to have had a long dream, and I couldn't wake up." ”

Concubine Xiao Yafei blushed, pushed him and whispered, "The juniors are still there, why did Your Majesty talk about this." ”

Xue Peiqi smiled, and said to the two of them, "Your Majesty cherishes her mother, she is a model for husbands in the world, and the minister just learns from Your Majesty, and it is good to build a good family style when you go back." ”

Xiao Tingchu said disdainfully, "I also said that I learned from Your Majesty, I see that you can't even learn half a point of Your Majesty, just take a few days ago, saying that you were socializing with a few old friends, but after coming back, your face was red and your spirit was high, and those who knew that you were friends were in a high mood, and those who didn't know thought that you had taken the bad medicine of Wushisan!" ”

When Emperor Hongyuan heard this, he immediately felt that it was inappropriate, and he twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Is this five stone scatter still spreading in the market now?" ”

"Your Majesty Mingjian, in fact, after the rectification of the market, the unhealthy trend of wantonly taking Wushisan has been stopped, but there are three religions and nine streams in the market, and the character is complicated, and many lawbreakers have read a few medical techniques and know a few herbs, so they have made a lot of spice pills similar to Wushisan. These medicines look no different from ordinary spice pills, and it is difficult to distinguish between them, and many people actually inhale and take them without knowing anything. It's a shame to say that the time that Ting Chu just said was that the minister accidentally inhaled a spice called 'half-day leisure' in the market, which has a similar effect to Wushisan, which caused some ridiculous things. ”

When Concubine Xiao Yafei's face changed greatly when she heard this, she hurriedly said, "Xue Qing, you have to carefully screen in the future, this kind of bad medicine is very harmful, but you must not be subjected to other people's Tao again." ”

Xue Peiqi said yes again and again, and turned around to appease Xiao Tingchu.

"Half a day......'s leisure," Emperor Hongyuan pondered for a while, thoughtful.

Xue and Xiao saw that Emperor Hongyuan's spirit was getting worse and worse, and it was not good to disturb in Ningde Palace, so they got up and retired after a cup of tea, and when they left, Concubine Xiao Yafei also asked An'er to give the two of them a meeting gift, Xue Peiqi took it, and saw that it was a delicately bound brocade box, and the box was inscribed with the words "purple incense".

Concubine Xiao Ya smiled, "Coincidentally, there are nothing rare in my palace, this is the Ning Shen incense sent by the Internal Affairs Bureau to the palaces, and it is also rare, so I will borrow flowers to offer the Buddha and send it to you to try." ”

As she was talking, An'er suddenly laughed, Concubine Xiao Yafei turned her head and asked her what she was laughing at, An'er replied, "The slave and maid laughed at all the clever things in the world that came to your palace, Niangniang, this purple incense was still procured by the Internal Affairs Bureau from the Xue family in Haizhou, and now that Lord Xue has taken it, isn't this just back in the hands of his own family?" Another coincidence. ”

Everyone laughed, and Xue Peiqi said, "In this way, it is very appropriate for the minister to accept this incense, thank you for your kindness." As he spoke, he put the box to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, but when he didn't smell it, he immediately twisted his brows.

Emperor Hongyuan saw that his expression was inappropriate and asked, "How?" Xue Aiqing doesn't love these spices either? ”

Xue Peiqi suddenly knelt down and said in horror, "Weichen is terrified! This incense, this incense...... The smell of this incense is very similar to the half-day leisure that the minister inhaled some time ago! ”

Everyone was surprised, and Concubine Xiao Yafei looked at Emperor Hongyuan in shock, at a loss.

Emperor Hongyuan was quite calm, but his sword eyebrows were already locked, and he said in a deep voice, "Xue Aiqing will stay for a while, come here, and pass on the two imperial doctors Zhang and Wang!" ”

The inner courtiers got the order, and immediately trotted out, and after a while, Imperial Doctor Zhang and Imperial Doctor Wang rushed to Ningde Palace panting with the medicine box on their backs, and when they saw that everyone was safe, they breathed a sigh of relief and knelt down to salute. Emperor Hongyuan didn't say much, and waved his hand to ask Xue Peiqi to ask the imperial doctor about this.

Xue Peiqi explained to the imperial doctor, then opened the brocade box and handed the spices to the imperial doctor. Zhang and Wang didn't dare to slack off, they immediately smelled the incense and tried the incense, and then carefully used ice chips and other things to wake up themselves, such as several times before replying, "Your Majesty, Niangniang, the spices in the hands of Lord Xue should be the half-day leisure that has been circulated in the market." ”

Emperor Hongyuan had already been angry, the truth was not clear before, and it was inconvenient to attack, and now the two imperial doctors Zhang and Wang, who he had always trusted, had come to a conclusion, and he was immediately furious, and he grabbed the tea cup on the case and wanted to fall to the ground, but when he saw that Concubine Xiao Ya beside him had already lost her face, he was afraid that he would frighten her again, so he put down the teacup and said, "Today's matter, not a word can be passed out of Ningde Palace, and those who violate the order will not be spared!" ”

A group of palace maids inside and outside the palace gate knelt down to agree, and Emperor Hongyuan called his inner courtier Wang Zhong over and said, "You, go and give the Internal Affairs Bureau to me to carefully investigate, and find out all the causes and consequences before the time, and report it to me!" Wang Zhong agreed, and was about to retreat, and Emperor Hongyuan said, "Be cautious, don't make a fuss!" "How did Wang Zhong not understand his master's intentions? So he nodded again and again, bowed and retreated.

Three days later, it was the Sheng Crown Ceremony, and it was the turn of Concubine Xiao Yafei to sleep the night before the ceremony, but Emperor Hongyuan did not go to Concubine Xiao Ya on the grounds that he needed to fast and bathe before the ceremony, but stayed alone in his own Yechen Palace.

On the day of the ceremony, the whole Changxing was full of joy, the flowers were splendid, the people of the city gathered on both sides of the Suzaku Street, watching a team of envoys escorting He Yi into the palace under the escort of the majestic Imperial Forest Army cavalry, the team is said to stretch for twenty or thirty miles, the first batch of He Yi entered the first palace gate Daye Gate, and the last batch was still ten miles outside Changxing City. Such a grand occasion is really rare to see in more than ten years! The treasures of Chaohe are all rare treasures, gold, silver and jade, ivory Buddha bones and the like, needless to say, the latest strange is the congratulatory gift of the country of Bi, it turned out to be a white eye, energetic live tiger, locked in a special iron cage, on both sides are six animal trainers, while walking teasing the big tiger to do some extremely difficult movements, attracting everyone's amazement. This live tiger is said to have been domesticated a long time ago, and together with the six animal trainers, it was given to King Sheng as a plaything.

Outside the palace is already such a grand occasion, needless to say inside the palace, it is a bead ring green, colorful, but also flag hunting, singing and dancing, the strength and wealth of the country are fully displayed, which is enviable.

Emperor Hongyuan accepted the worship of the envoys of various countries in the Yonghe Hall and presented the congratulatory ceremony, this ceremony alone lasted for half a day, and there was no time to listen to the envoys to introduce the congratulatory gifts one by one, so he could only take out the best one in the congratulatory gifts, and the others were directly taken to the Internal Affairs Bureau to be registered, and then submitted to the imperial review in the future. The white-fronted tiger with enough gimmicks only appeared on the Luantai outside the Yonghe Hall from afar, and then was directly sent to the other garden outside the palace to raise rare beasts.