"Li Nan greets Her Royal Highness the Princess, Her Royal Highness is a thousand years old. ”

Yao Jin turned around and walked up to Li Nan, patted his arm and pulled him up, looking indifferent: "Father-in-law Nan, we know each other like this, we don't need to salute." ”

Li Nan was slightly embarrassed, but he was also a little inexplicably happy in his heart, and replied: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you are the master, and the slave is the servant, this gift cannot be abolished." ”

"Then what are you looking for me?"

"Well, Your Majesty asked the servants to pass the word, and said yes-" Li Nan scratched his head, feeling that it seemed too casual to say this, but there was no better way to express it, so he still said honestly: "Your Majesty said that the name proposed by the Ministry of Rites for you is not good, let the princess make up a name yourself." ”

Yao Jin was stunned, and then laughed: "Let me plan, then it doesn't have to be troublesome, just call Yao Jin." ”

Li Nan thought that the father and daughter were really the same at will, and they were about to return to their lives, but Yao Jin stopped him: "Are you going back to Zichen Palace?"

"Back to Your Highness, the slave is going back to restore his life. ”

"Well, I'll go with you, I have something to tell Your Majesty, Father. ”

Yao Jin was about to go out after speaking, and a palace maid next to him stepped forward a little nervously and said, "Your Highness, the dragon girl official of Yongyang Hall is still waiting outside the door." ”

"Well, wait. Yao Jin didn't raise his eyelids, he went out, and the palace maid on the side looked at Li Nan pitifully, and asked timidly: "Father-in-law Nan, how can the slave and maid go back to the dragon maid?"

Li Nan frowned, and hurriedly chased out, but saw Yao Jin talking to Long Wan with a smile at the door: "I didn't know it was you." I knew it was you, so I came out to greet you first, but I made you wait for a while in this cold day. ”

"How dare you work for Her Royal Highness the Princess," Long Wan's face was slightly red, and she bowed, "The Queen Mother ordered your slave maid to send some Xingong snacks from Qilin Hall to Her Highness to taste, if you like it, you will let the Shangshi Bureau prepare it for Chenghuan Xiaozhu in the future." ”

Yao Jin opened the food box and looked at it, it was all rose crystal cake, peach blossom cake and the like, and touched it with his fingers, but it was still soft, presumably fresh. She casually took a piece and put it in her mouth, swallowed it in two bites, nodded and said, "I tasted the dim sum, and I received the queen's wishes." Now the food box is all what I gave to Sister Long, which can be regarded as the correspondence between our sisters. ”

"How dare Long Wan call her a sister to Your Highness!" Long Wan hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "This tribute is the queen's mother's heart, Long Wan is just a slave, I really dare not accept it." ”

Yao Jin smiled and said: "In the past, when I was a little female official, I went to Yongyang Hall to spread the word, and others knew that I didn't want to go in, but they still didn't want to help, and they always waited until you came before helping me go in and spread the word." Now this little snack is also a part of my gratitude to you, but you refuse to accept it, isn't it that the little lady has become a princess, but Sister Long is going to be separated from me?"

Long Wan saw that she was playful, and she also smiled: "How dare the slave maid." It's just that in the past, His Royal Highness always sent a message to Yongyang Palace, either His Majesty didn't come to eat, or His Majesty didn't come today, so naturally they were afraid to pass the word for you. ”

"So you, Long Wan, are the only ones, and I consider them friends. Yao Jin took a step forward, suddenly pulled down the handkerchief on Long Wan's waist, and then wrapped the snacks in the food box into the handkerchief, and said with a smile: "Okay, this is my own handbag, you can't shirk it anymore." ”

"Then Long Wan is respectful, it is better to obey the fate. ”

Long Wan took it with both hands, and just as she was about to kneel down to thank her, she was pulled by Yao Jin: "Since you are here, you don't need to do this." ”

Li Nan approached them at this time, covered his mouth and said, "The old slave also said What did His Highness come out in a hurry, he was looking for an old friend here." ”

"Nan's father-in-law laughed," Yao Jin heard the word "old friend", and suddenly remembered Jin Liancheng. In fact, she had avoided thinking about this person and everything that happened in that dark night for all this time, but at this time, the appearance of Jin Liancheng kneeling in front of her once again came to her mind, his face, his voice, his contradictory eyes, his face that seemed to be a little distorted. Yao Jin's face suddenly lost a smile, and he said coldly: "In such a big palace, there are no rare treasures, but this old friend may not be found." ”

After saying that, he went straight away, leaving Long Wan and Li Nan looking at each other for a while before following.

Zichen Palace.

"The sons and daughters knock on their father, long live their father, long live. ”

"Well, get up. ”

"Xie, father. ”

A normal greeting was a normal greeting, but the originally warm and spring-like hall was instantly lowered by several degrees, and the palace maids and eunuchs on both sides and Li Nan, who was accompanying Emperor Li, felt that the atmosphere was a little abnormal, and everyone involuntarily lowered the frequency of breathing. And Yao Jin's face that couldn't see joy and sorrow, a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and a raised forehead seemed to be telling the people around him: Get away from this princess.

"Let's all go down, the widow and the princess will gossip a few words. Li Huang stretched out his hand and waved it, causing everyone to retreat, but he was still looking at the performance, and he didn't seem to notice the abnormality of Yao Jin's face.

After everyone went down, Yao Jin walked straight to the emperor's dragon chair, showed a shallow, cold smile, and said gloomily: "Your Majesty, marrying me to the Fujian Kingdom doesn't seem to be a good move. ”

The emperor had just opened a folded hand, paused, and said without raising his head: "Why do you say this." ”

"Fujian is just a small island country, facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south, and there are many pirates in the sea area there, it has always been not very peaceful, and Fujian can only trade and do business in the northwest direction through our dynasty," Yao Jin said slowly, "Even if you get me over and do it as an internal force, you should raise troops to destroy Fujian, but it is only such a big place, you still have to send troops to guard the long coastline, and you have to guard against pirates from sneak attacks from time to time, which is really not cost-effective." ”

"Tsk, that's good!" Emperor Li didn't know when he put down the fold, slapped his palm lightly twice, and praised with a smile: "I didn't expect the widowed Princess Ya to be so smart and know the situation in the south so clearly. ”

"I have to be a useful pawn to be worthy of the glory and wealth you give. Yao Jin stretched out her hand to support the golden hairpin on her head, and when she kowtowed to say hello just now, she felt that this weighty thing slipped a little, and now it seemed to be about to fall. The headdress of the lady in the palace is complicated, and for the convenience of action, Yao Jin is only willing to tie a simple bun that looks like a man, and inserts a golden hairpin, which means it, and thinks it is about the same. Therefore, the two discipline aunts of Chenghuan Xiaozhu preached for a while, thinking that these sisters-in-law thought that the princess was young and easy to bully, who expected that Yao Jin would not say a word, and immediately served them a board, and poured two large pots of chili water with their own hands, and ordered people to watch the two of them drink it in one go, saying that it was to moisten their throats, and they could be more sharp when they spoke in the future. And Chenghuan Xiaozhu hit this matter, and everyone in the palace was also scared half to death, and those who liked to be lazy on weekdays and thought that the princess was young and easy to fool were also cheered up, and they didn't dare to slack off. The entire Chenghuan Xiaozhu was trembling in various dense tables such as the vigil schedule, the list of work content, the work inspection list, the record table of rewards and punishments, and so on, which were formulated by Yao Jin himself, and they all trembled, feeling that they were not looking for a master, but a king of Hades.