Winter goes to spring, but the cold in the north has not been alleviated because of the spring equinox, and the Evergreen Palace is still covered in silver, a world of ice and snow. Although there is a special person who will carefully clean the frozen road every day before dawn, the palace people are still very careful when walking, for fear of accidentally falling down, bumping themselves is secondary, if you smash the things of the masters in your hands, it will be terrible. Among them, the palace maids and eunuchs of the greenhouse hall are particularly careful, after all, their master Concubine Yue has just diagnosed the happy pulse, and now almost everyone is staring at her belly, you must know that this is not only her first child, but also the first child of Emperor Wei and the first child after ascending the throne. Although the birth of a boy and a girl is not yet known, from the signs that the queen mother visited the concubine's dormitory and the emperor rested in the greenhouse hall for seven consecutive days, the concubine Jiang Yingyue seems to have become the most important person in the harem.

However, just when the whole Jiangmen was overjoyed and were counting on Jiang Yingyue to glorify the Jiang family in one fell swoop, the Empress Dowager Yang suddenly issued a decree in the palace on the second day of the third lunar month: canonize Li Jiaoqian as the concubine and give the Yuan Palace.

As soon as the will came out, although the whole palace did not dare to say that there was an uproar, but in private there were many discussions: the two county lords of the Ye family were personally sent by the lord of the Xiaonan domain, and they were married to the royal family of the Li Dynasty, so they were only crowned concubines, and the two sisters lived together in Qingyun Palace; although the young ladies of the nobles of the Wei State were also selected into the palace, at most they were crowned with the position of beauty, and they have always lived together in Tangli Qingyuan; and although Li Jiaoqian is the niece of the Queen Mother, her identity is well known, her father is a sinner of the Li Dynasty's rebellion, and the whole clan has a relationship with the war of the Wei State last year, and the thing that was slapped on the Penglai Pavilion was watched by everyone, with her status, if she stayed silent in the Queen Mother's Palace, it would be fine, this was only a year later, and she became a concubine, and her residence was almost the most luxurious Yiyuan Palace in the entire Evergreen Palace - you need to know that this is the residence of the Queen Mother when she was a concubine in the past, such a person, such an arrangement, how can it not make people speculate and discuss. There has always been no shortage of gossip in the palace, and everything came out for a while, even the chief eunuch Yang Shi, who has always been a little lacking in confidence in front of Jiang Jianing, will now straighten his waist and say to Jiang Jianing with a smile: "The things in the palace of the concubine and the mother, we are all slack off as slaves, after all, it is the niece of the queen mother, the emperor has always attached importance to filial piety, and it is natural to treat the concubine and the mother of the mother." ”

However, all this doesn't matter to Li Jiaoqian, she has been in and out of the palace of the Li Dynasty since she was a child, and she naturally knows better than anyone else about the faces of those people in the harem, and she has experienced the catastrophe of life and death and the collapse of the family, and she also understands better than anyone what is really important and what is the key to controlling the ups and downs of fate. At this moment, she has finished receiving the ceremony in the Empress Dowager's palace, and is walking in full costume on the way to the Ming Palace to kowtow to Emperor Wei to thank him. Li Jiaoqian used to have the reputation of "the first beauty in the capital" of the Li Dynasty, although there are some flattery and exaggerated elements because of her identity as the only daughter of the king of Xishan, but she is indeed extremely beautiful, the beauty and grace of a typical Jiangnan woman, but in that pretty smile, she shows a bright and moving that cannot be ignored, this bright and beautiful is the same as the Empress Dowager Yang who favored the harem back then. When passing by the east side of Ringuang Lake, she even stopped for a moment, ordered someone to fold a few red plums blooming by the lake, and picked two hairpins on the bun with great interest, looking at the maids who were a little surprised and did not dare to speak, Li Jiaoqian smiled slightly: "There are beautiful women in the north, peerless and independent, how do you know that there are also beautiful women in the south who are 'hibiscus is not as good as beauty makeup, and the wind in the water hall is fragrant'." In the future, with the emperor's favor, my southern hibiscus will surely be able to bloom in the ice and snow of the north. ”

She squinted her eyes slightly in the direction of the Ming Palace, her lips moved slightly as if she was praying for something, she was wearing a pink cloak, with a very rare red fox fur on it, and she was dressed in an apricot palace dress inside, embroidered with a whole picture of flowers fighting for spring, although this was a formal dress for the canonization ceremony, but it was cleverly integrated into the tactful and soft beauty of the little daughter's family under the regularity and rigor of the formal dress, which made people can't help but feel pity. Although it was cold but sunny during the day, the occasional wind swept by, blowing Li Jiaoqian's thin bangs, and suddenly her cheeks were slightly red, like the two delicate and lovely red plums on her bun, Wei Emperor Wen Zihua who came from afar looked at her, signaled everyone not to make a sound, and walked gently in front of her.

"Concubine Yuan is very naughty, I am waiting for you in the Ming Palace, but what are you doing here?"

"Ahh

Li Jiaoqian's face suddenly turned crimson, and she wanted to break free and looked embarrassed, and said: "The concubine knocks on the emperor, and the emperor ......is safe."

Wen Zihua's charming eyes smiled into a crystal crescent moon, and said softly: "If you don't come, how can I be safe?"

"Your Majesty, are you making fun of your concubines......" Li Jiaoqian glanced at Wen Zihua's eyes, and felt a tremor in her heart, as if a long, long time ago, there was a person and a pair of eyes who also looked at her with such a smile, but those eyes were too clear and bright, but they were not as deep as the person in front of her. She suppressed the astringency in her heart, leaned on his chest, and a faint scent of ambergris entered her heart, Li Jiaoqian suddenly felt very relieved, as long as she smelled this smell, as long as she leaned on this chest, she felt that everything would be there.

This one by the Ringuang Lake soon spread throughout the Changqing Palace, and the Empress Dowager Yang was naturally happy in her heart, but her face was still silent, eating fasting and chanting Buddha as usual, and she rarely interacted with the concubines; even if Emperor Wei came to greet her every day, the two of them were also ordinary words, asking about the fetus of Concubine Yue, or the daily trivial matters in the palace; occasionally mentioning the Yuan concubine, it was only the same as other concubines, and the Empress Dowager Yang mentioned it, and Wen Zihua only said that everything was fine. However, the old Yang clan of the previous dynasty, together with the clansmen of the Yuan concubine's mother who was about to decline in the Yang family, gradually raised their heads, and the court was no longer silent, and there were those who were able to admonish effectively, and Emperor Wei also did not hesitate to promote and praise; Although the people of Jiangmen and Emperor Wei are trying their best to collect all kinds of precious medicinal materials and supplements from all over the world and send them to the greenhouse hall, but as the weather gradually warms, the face of the imperial doctor is becoming more and more unsightly, until the day before the summer solstice, the imperial doctor Ling Shen Taiyang, who has not been out of the house for a long time, suddenly appeared in the greenhouse hall with a serious expression with a medicine box.

"Imperial Doctor Shen, this palace ...... Can't you keep this child?"