"Mother, the slave found a bag among the clothes she changed yesterday, but is it the mother's?" Ayu put the Zikun Yuxiu bag on the desk.

Chu Xiang was sitting on a rosewood carved armchair drawing a picture with a delicate wolf pen, and when he heard Ayu's voice, he put the brush on the pen holder. I wiped my hands with a silk handkerchief before picking up the bag, this bag was handed over to her by Ye Xueqing yesterday, and the things contained in it cannot be ignored, why is chasing the sun in A-Niang's hands, and where is Amaterasu? None of these questions can be answered.....

"Present the seven-colored exquisite treasure box sent by the emperor a few days ago." Chu Xiang suddenly remembered the treasure box, and heard Liang Qi say that it was a tribute from the Persians, and it is said that there is a device hidden in it, and the treasure box must be opened with a delicate key that matches it, and if someone with bad intentions insists on opening it, it will trigger the machine inside and destroy the entire treasure box and the things inside.

At that time, it was thought that this treasure box was just a simple decoration, how could it be useful, but now it really comes in handy.

Ayu had already presented the treasure box, and what caught his eye was a square box about half a foot long and three inches wide, and the box was actually carved from the glazed stone abundant in Persia, and under the sunlight scattered by the hollow carved window lattice, it really shimmered with seven-colored light! The inside of the box cannot be seen from the outside, so it is used to present valuables.

Chu Xiang opened the treasure box with the Linglong Key, which was covered with a layer of white snow rabbit velvet. Open the jade show bag and take it out to chase the sun, carefully put it flat on the rabbit down, beautiful jade with glass, quite eye-catching!

Pulling the glass key out of the hole, the lid closed in an instant, without a single gap. The glass key itself does not deliberately thread the hole of the needle, so it can not be worn on the body, get up and walk to the bed, lean over slightly and press it lightly with his hand in the gap of the bed, and I heard a crisp snap The phoenix wings that were originally carved under the bed with the dragon and phoenix slowly appeared a dark grid!

Chu Xiang put the Linglong key in it and pushed it back, and the dark grid retreated, and the phoenix wings returned to the golden silk wood and continued to entangle with the powerful and mighty dragon......

"Ayu, if this matter is known to others, you..." Chu Xiang looked back at the maid not far away, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his lips said lightly

Ayu pounced and knelt on the ground, "The slave will never say this, if the mother doesn't believe it, the slave can swear to the sky!" After speaking, he raised his left hand and swore that "the slave will never betray the mother, follow the mother in this life, wait for the mother, if you violate the oath, let the slave die without a place to be buried!"

Chu Xiang looked at the villain in front of her so decisively, she just wanted to intimidate her, and she didn't let her swear such a vicious oath. "Bengong naturally believes you, get up quickly, there is still a woman missing from the painting of Bengong today, and I haven't put pen to paper after thinking about it for a long time in my head, Ayu will let Bengong continue to paint as that woman, okay?"

Chu Xiang walked back to the table, Ayu stood aside and picked up the Xuanxiang ink and grinded it, "Niangniang, don't make fun of the slave maid, how can the slave and maid be painted on the slave maid with such a beautiful painting..."

Why can't Ayu? There are no cumbersome rules in the paintings of the main palace, and who has set the rules since ancient times that the person in the painting must be a person of prominent status? Ordinary people also have the right to paint and be painted. ”

Ayu put the Xuanxiang ink on the ink plate, and her hands kept shaking, "Ayu, thank you Niangniang, Niangniang is so kind-hearted, God will definitely bless Niangniang!"

"You girl, this palace just said a few words of emotion, go over and stand up."

Ayu stood there like a wooden stake, her hands tightly grasping the corners of her clothes, her face was red with nervousness, Chu Xiang picked up the wolf and looked up at her, "Why are you so stiff?"

"The slave doesn't know how to stand..." Ayu's pitiful appearance really touched Chu Xiang, and then she thought that she was similar in age to her, but her growth environment was very different, she had been pampered since she was a child and had never done heavy work, and her brother was also obedient to her, A-Niang..... In contrast, Ayu is much more difficult, her mother died early and left her younger brother, relying on her father to hunt for a living, Ayu's hand she inadvertently touched, but the skin that should have been soft was so rough.....

"It's this palace that didn't think that you were standing there, and this palace came to guide you."

Chu Xiang took out a Luo fan from the shelf and put it in Ayu's hand "This palace will reward you with this fan, you can learn the posture of this palace" After speaking, he put out a daughter's house in front of him with a Luo fan in her left hand and half covering her face, and her right hand pinching her fingers to put it on her chest.

Ah Yu stiffened and studied for a long time, and finally he was no longer as nervous as he was at the beginning, Chu Xiang nodded with satisfaction and walked back to the desk, picked up the brush and slowly painted on the fine rice paper. Her painting talent is very high, and even Chu Lingke's friend, Liu Bowen, a master of feng shui painting, praised and said, "It is very rare for such a petite girl to be able to paint such a painting that attracts people!"

A cup of tea, a picture of the rain pavilion woman first saw the scene of the heart of the person on display, the man in the painting turned his back to the face, but from the woman's face shy, apricot eyes with spring performance should be satisfied. Ayu stepped forward and looked at the painting, and couldn't believe that the woman in the painting was herself!

"How can the mother draw the slave maid so beautifully, the slave and maid can't recognize it." Ayu said excitedly

"If you like it, this painting will be given to you as a gift from this palace."

The slave thanked the mother! It's just that the slave doesn't know how to save this painting, what if it breaks! ”

"You sent the painting to Xiao Quanzi, who had worked as a long-time worker in a painting boat before entering the palace and knew how to preserve the paintings."

Chu Xiang looked at the gardenia outside the window, and suddenly remembered that it was almost the Begging Festival?

"Ayu, but it's almost the Begging Festival?"

Ayu was dealing with the tools she had just used to paint, looked up and thought about it, and replied, "Back to Niangniang, there are five days left, and it is the annual begging festival." What do you need to prepare? ”

The Qiqiao Festival is the night from the first day of the seventh month of the seventh lunar month to the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the girls in new clothes beg for wisdom and wisdom from Vega in the courtyard, which is called "Qiqiao". It is said that the Seventh Sister is a heavenly weaver, and the girls "beg" to the Seventh Sister, begging her to teach her the skills of the mind and hand to make purses and other things that express their love.

When she was a child, A-Niang once took her to sit under the peach tree in the courtyard to learn to thread needles and beggars, at that time she always called Chu Lingke over to sit together and thread needles and threads, Chu Lingke was already a half-grown man who didn't know anything about the needlework of the female baby's family, and poked several blood holes with his hand, and was ridiculed by Chu Xiang for a long time

"Ayu, I'll go to the Shangyi Bureau tomorrow to ask for some colorful threads."

Ayu's eyes lit up when she heard the colorful line, "What Niangniang said is the colorful line used to fight Qiaoqiao on the begging festival!" Chu Xiang turned around and walked towards Tingfeng Pavilion, "Could it be that the palace wants that colored thread to mend clothes?"

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On the beam, the begging festival? He hadn't heard of the Rausch Festival, and it must have been a boring festival. But....what did she say she wanted the multicolored threads for? At night, you can go out of the palace to see, and there is malt syrup. Yan Hong stood on a high place and looked at the pretty figure in the distance, his heart rippled, he ate two crystal dumplings for breakfast today, drank half a bowl of white fungus porridge, two plum cakes, and a bee syrup. No wonder she was so thin and sickly that she ate so little like a cat, and that the meal at his table was not enough to stuff her teeth......

The cat ..... really want to raise a cat like her, lazily lying in front of the window and basking in the sun, some people bring food when they are hungry, some people carry them back to bed when they are tired, and some people coax them to sleep when they are tired..... When swallowing in my throat, I can see the Adam's apple moving up and down, and I really want to raise one

On the eve of the Qiqiao Festival, Chu Xiang was busy with tomorrow's arrangements during the day, and in the evening, he was very tired and fell asleep very early. When Liang Qi came to the Mingluan Hall from the imperial study, he found that the inner hall was not as brightly lit as usual, and in the past, he could see the people who were thinking about it all day from the empty window of the carved cage, but today he did not.

"Xiang'er's maidservant?" Liang Qi sat on a chair in the outer hall and drank a cup of tea

"Slave maid see the emperor" Ayu was packing up the clothes that the mother was wearing tomorrow in the inner hall, and did not hear the footsteps.

Is there anything unusual about the mother? How do you fall asleep so early? Liang Qi drank up a lamp and motioned for Rong Cheng to pour another lamp, most of the tea in Mingluan Hall is bee sugar water, and the queen bee honey produced in the frontier is boiled into bee candy by special means, and a piece is taken out every day and put it in the tea cup and brewed with boiling water, and immediately there is a sweet fragrance that emits a great benefit to the woman's body.

"Back to the emperor, everything is fine today, and the medicine is also taken on time, but I am a little tired from packing up the things that I will use tomorrow, so I didn't wait for the emperor"

Liang Qi bowed slightly, "It's okay if there's nothing, if there's something, report it immediately" "No"

The inner sanctum is made of gold silk wood on a couch

Liang Qi gently touched Chu Xiang's sleeping pink little face with his hand, "Xiang'er? Xiang'er? Hehe, why do you sleep so deeply, like a little pig" Gently pinched her little nose with her hand, only to see that she couldn't breathe smoothly because her nose couldn't breathe smoothly, so she lightly opened her pink lips, Liang Qi was a middle-aged man who knew how to love, such a fragrant scene was unbearable, and he slowly leaned down and kissed it.

Chu Xiang in the dream was playing chess with Zhou Gong, and when he saw that he was about to win, he suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe, his mouth and nose couldn't breathe, and he stretched out his hands to try to take away the things that were blocking his breathing, and there were pointed nails on his slender fingers, and when he scratched it, he left three marks on Liang Qi's dragon face....

"Hmm..... the emperor?" A lazy cat woke up and looked at you with big wet eyes

"Xiang'er finally woke up, I have never seen such a heavy person as Xiang'er sleeping, and someone can take Xiang'er away, which is probably the most stable business that people have ever done." Liang Qi touched his slightly aching cheek and muttered

"The emperor is happy with his concubines again, why is the emperor's face....why did he spend it?"

Liang Qi pressed her back into the bed, "The scars on my face, Xiang'er really don't know?" "The concubines really don't know, but which concubine has a quarrel with the emperor?"

How can there be such a simple person as her in the world, and which concubine! She doesn't know where he sleeps every night! Sometimes Liang Qi really wants to dig out her heart and take a closer look at what it looks like!

The scar on my face was scratched by a kitten while sleeping, Xiang'er said, where is the cat?

Chu Xiang looked at Liang Qi, who was a little funny because he was too close, and thought for a moment, "The cat the emperor said is....but a concubine?"

Shall I praise you for your cleverness, or should I praise you for your stupidity? But....you're all mine," he leaned over to kiss Fangze

"The emperor will wake up his concubines for this?" Chu Xiang covered his lips with his little hand that was about to be kissed

Strange me! Xiang'er get up and dress up quickly, and I will take you to a place. He beckoned Ayu and the maidservant to enter the inner hall and dress Chu Xiang

Chu Xiang was wearing layers of clothes and said with some dissatisfaction, "The hour is not early, why is the emperor so anxious about tomorrow?" ”

Liang Qi looked at Chu Xiang, who was wearing thick clothes and became a little round, and nodded with satisfaction, "Tomorrow, I should let the imperial dining room make some long-meat meals, Xiang'er looks better now, she was too thin in the past, I didn't dare to use my strength" Rong Cheng worked hard to maintain the expression on his face next to him and not let himself laugh.

Liang Qi took the night light and waved his hand to let the maids and eunuchs stand down, and took Chu Xiang's little hand and walked towards the outside of the hall.

"Where is the emperor going?" The night of the Long Forbidden Palace was unusually quiet, only scattered insect chirpings came from the grass, and the stars in the night sky struggled to clear the clouds and poke their heads out, providing twinkling light for the dawn below.

"Xiang'er and I are here." Liang Qi looked at Chu Xiang with a smile on his side, his warm palm clenched her little hand tightly, and he never wanted to let go from the beginning....

Chu Xiang followed Liang Qi in the imperial city of Nuoda for a long time, naturally he saw the scenery that he had never seen before, even at night, it was still very beautiful under the illumination of the night light and starlight in his hand, Chu Xiang had not been to a few places since he entered the palace, except for the Mingluan Palace, which was the dormitory of the Empress Dowager, the Yingxia Palace, and the Chaolu Palace, which was rarely visited, and it was the first time to walk so far in the palace.

"Xiang'er, can you close your eyes, and I will take you the rest of the way?"

This is so familiar 'Xiang'er, don't be afraid, marry into the Chang Forbidden Palace, and the future Lu I will take you away' Before the wedding, Liang Qi was at the gate of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion and took Chu Xiang from the back of the wedding mother-in-law, and it was this sentence that he said.

"Good"

The warm big hand led her forward slowly, step by step very steadily, after a cup of tea, Liang Qi stopped and leaned down slightly and said in her ear, "Xiang'er, open your eyes"

Chu Xiang would have a brief blur when he opened his eyes again due to the temporary closure of his eyes, and when his eyes saw clearly, he was stunned, "Your Majesty, is this going to ....farm?"

"Silly Xiang'er, I really don't know why?" Liang Qi scratched her little nose

"The concubine doesn't know"

Liang Qi pulled her to squat down and took out a disc from a shelf, which was covered by a red silk handkerchief, and I don't know what was underneath. Uncover the red silk and the white jade disc is full of acacia beans! Acacia beans are screened very strictly, each one is round, round, moist, full of color, and placed in the original white jade plate, which is very good-looking.

"Does Xiang'er know that tomorrow is the Begging Festival?"

Chu Xiang nodded, "The concubine knows"

According to legend, on the eve of the Qiqiao Festival, a layer of spring soil was covered on the wooden board, and the seeds were sown to allow it to sprout, which means ....." Liang Qi looked at Chu Xiang with gentle eyes, "I won't tell you first, Xiang'er, are you willing to sow these acacia beans with me?" ”

Chu Xiang looked at the person in front of him, since he met him and knew each other, he had always been consistent with him. It is said that since ancient times, emperors have been affectionate and unintentional, and Liang Qi is that special case.

"The concubine is willing"

Liang Qi held her tightly in his arms from behind, holding her small hand with his right hand and digging on the wet soil with the shovel head of the hoe, and also holding her hand with his left hand to take out a small handful of acacia beans from the disc, slowly, carefully spreading them in the soil like a little doll, and then compacting the soil with the shovel head, and so on.

Liang Qi buried his head sideways in her slender jade neck and gently sniffed the faint aroma "What I just did with you is to plant seeds and ask for children on the eve of the begging festival, according to legend, as long as the seeds sown together with your beloved will grow sprouts, it means that the seed will have a child, and the offspring will be vigorous. ”

I want a child like Xiang'er, and I will teach him to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and manage the government. Xiang'er can teach him to read and read. Liang Qi seemed to feel that she had a child, and his big palm gently stroked his lower abdomen.

"Xiang'er, are you willing?"

Liang Qi is already twenty years old, and his grandfather already has four princes and five princesses at his age. He....had been waiting for her, waiting for her to be willing

Good for a long time " good "

The night light hung lonely on the branches, and with the gentle swaying of the evening breeze, the candles in the lamp kept shining on the ground below.

In the moist soil, a small shoot is trying to grow upwards.