At the beginning of the new year, the Li Dynasty held a grand canonization ceremony in the palace on the fifth day after the opening of the dynasty, and officially canonized Li Yao, the king of Ling, as the crown prince of the Li Dynasty. On the same day, the palace spread the grace of amnesty, in order to add the blessing of the prince, amnesty to the world, and all the people congratulated. For a while, the news spread all over the surrounding countries, and all countries also sent envoys to congratulate each other, even the king of the jungle, who had never established diplomatic relations with the Li Dynasty, also attached great importance to it this time, not only sent the great master of the jungle country as an envoy, but also sent a nine-tailed deer jade sculpture to the Lingjing Imperial Palace, expressing his willingness to establish friendly neighboring relations with the Li Dynasty from now on.

The nine-tailed deer is the holy beast of the jungle country, the king of the jungle made this congratulatory gift, and suddenly greatly increased Li Yao's prestige in the court, although he had the support of the Mo family from the military in the past, but in the intricate court is rootless, and now there is a strong neighboring force in the jungle, and those courtiers who have always complained about his origin and past, seeing that Emperor Li attaches great importance to the exchanges with the jungle, and the establishment of diplomatic relations is fully entrusted to the prince, Li Yao also took this opportunity to fully enter the internal affairs of the court. He is humble and polite in his life, and he is very disciplined in doing things, so everyone gradually changed their tone and no longer discussed whether his moral identity was enough to match the position of the prince. After a while like this, on the bright side, the Li Dynasty finally gradually restored the calm of the past, and in the capital and within the palace walls, everyone's hearts gradually settled down.

This day has just passed, the spring thunder in the capital, a spring rain moistens the earth densely and silently, and the ten thousand gardens in the palace are bright grass green. The queen walked on the cobblestone path outside the Ten Thousand Gardens with a cloak of longevity bamboo patterns, stopped for a while, and looked at the spring scene of the recovery of everything in the drizzle, but her heart was full of sorrow.

"Niangniang, it's raining in the cold spring, your body is good, if you get cold here again, how can it be good. ”

The queen sighed lightly, looking at the eaves of the palace exposed between the trees not far away, the bright and dazzling colors, but in her eyes there was a sense of desolation of broken walls for no reason, "The earth is rejuvenated, but I don't know where my Zheng'er is at the moment——"

"Niangniang!" the eldest aunt looked around cautiously and pulled the corners of the queen's clothes, "Concubine Xian is still waiting for you in the Qingfeng Pavilion." ”

“...... Alas, let's go. ”

When the queen and her party arrived at the Qingfeng Pavilion, Wei Nanyan had already been waiting in the main hall for a long time. The queen saw that although she had a sick look on her face, she was in good spirits, and she sighed again: "In the end, you are young, although you are sick, you seem to be in good spirits." It's not like this palace, from the Chinese New Year to the present, I always feel sweaty and happy, and I am always unhappy, and people have no spirit. ”

"The queen mother is just tired at the canonization ceremony of His Royal Highness the Prince, and she is happy to drink a few more glasses at the banquet, and there are some who have not recovered for a while, so it must be fine in a few days. Wei Nanyan got up and presented a plate of sour jujube cake to the queen, "This is made by the concubine herself, sweet and sour and delicious and very appetizing, please try it for the queen." ”

"Concubine Xian is really caring, knowing that the queen has a bad appetite, she specially made this snack to appetize you. Seeing that the queen didn't say a word, the eldest aunt just looked at the plate of sour jujube cake and was stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to bring a porcelain jar and gently placed it on the table, "This is the newly brewed honey golden pomelo in the Yongyang Palace, and the queen specially asked the slave maid to bring it to the virtuous concubine." ”

"Thank you for the reward. Wei Nanyan bowed, and Si Qing, who was beside him, stepped forward to take the porcelain jar with both hands, and then respectfully retreated. At this time, the queen also came back to her senses, and reluctantly smiled: "You are young, you love to eat these sweets, this palace remembers, and I will bring them to you." Now the palace doesn't know why, the appetite has changed greatly, seeing these sweets really have no appetite, another day Kirin Hall will send those sweets, and the palace will let them send them to the Qingfeng Pavilion. ”

Wei Nanyan smiled slightly and said, "The queen loves her concubines, and the concubines shouldn't have refused. But Niangniang, you should still have these sweets in the Yongyang Palace, maybe you will need them. ”

"Where is it used?"

"When the crown prince establishes the crown princess, and there are a few side concubines, when the daughters-in-law come to greet you, why don't you take some snacks that the children like to entertain you-" Wei Nanyan took a piece of white jade cake in front of him and ate it slowly, his eyes fell on the tea bowl in front of him, and he said as if unintentionally, "I heard Your Majesty say that the prince is diligent in government affairs, and there is not a single maid in the prince's mansion who is connected to the room now." The concubine thought, when the queen is well, you have to choose a few suitable concubines for the prince, and take care of the prince's living and eating is-ah, it's just that you have to work out again, but how good. ”

"It's not that I'm afraid of being tired. The queen thought of Li Yao, and there was a complicated expression on her face, "The prince remembers himself in the name of this palace, and he has always been filial piety, and he has always listened to the teachings of this palace. But this matter of the crown princess, the palace has mentioned it a few times, but he has been pushing that he can't be busy, if he says that he will find two side concubines to serve first, he said that he will wronged the future princess - the palace doesn't understand, what does he think. ”

Wei Nanyan paused for a moment when he picked up the tea bowl, and then said with a smile: "It seems that the prince is busy with government affairs and is not immersed in women, which is a good thing." ”

The queen nodded slightly, took a sip of tea and said suddenly: "By the way, Concubine Xian, your younger brother and the prince are always good, and their young people also come and go often, this palace seems to remember that your brother and daughter-in-law Yunzhu County Lord also found a few women with the same family rank for the prince, can you have a future?"

"You said Jiaxi, she is a warm-hearted person, but Niangniang also knows that now she is busy taking care of **, helping His Royal Highness the Crown Prince choose a concubine and other important things, how can she be busy alone. Besides, as the queen said, the prince is busy with government affairs, and he really doesn't care about this matter, and it's still useless for others to be hot. According to the concubine, when the mother chooses the princess for the prince, the concubine asks her brother and daughter-in-law to come together, and we must take a good look at the prince and choose one. ”

"Well, Lord Yunzhu was raised by the eldest princess Hui Ling, and her vision will not be bad. The queen seemed to have tasted a piece of sour jujube cake to lift her spirits, and Chaowei Nanyan smiled: "Speaking of which, your younger brother is also blessed by you, and he has such a good family affair as the county lord of Yunzhu, you need to know that the county lord is the door of the Yao family, and the county lord is his only daughter-in-law, and the child raised by the eldest princess Huiling is married into the royal family as the crown princess, which can also be matched, but the eldest princess Huiling is reluctant, so she has kept the county lord for so long." I heard that the county lord is very attentive to your younger brother, and now that the husband and wife have the eldest daughter, they must be even more affectionate - Concubine Xian, it's not the palace that said you, you said that you have been in the palace for so many years, and your stomach has not moved, Your Majesty is so kind to you, but you are sick again. ”