After days of howling cold winds, rain and snow, it finally stopped last night. This year's Heijo seems to be much colder than in previous years.

Walk out of the gate of Qingxiao Courtyard. Look up and look into the distance. The tops of the pagodas of Baitai and Yongningji Temple are filled with snow. The tower bell, which had never been heard in the past, was not heard this morning. Tuoba guessed that it might be because the cold froze.

Stepping on the warm sun, Tuoba Shen took Lu Guang and walked together on the road to Zigong Temple. From a distance, you can see both sides of the palace wall, and there are many palace maids and palace servants and eunuchs holding wooden tools to clear the snow on the road.

The predecessor of the Purple Palace Temple was the Purple Palace where the emperor was born. During the reign of the Empress Dowager, the emperor rebuilt the Purple Palace into a palace temple. There are many elderly palace maids who were reluctant to leave the palace due to various reasons such as family when they were released in the past. Some concubines who believe in Buddhism will also come here to worship and pray for blessings. When the Queen Mother is in Japan, she will often come here, and sometimes she will break the fast and discuss Buddhism with some monks and nuns.

Tuoba Shen is here today because his biological mother once enshrined a Buddha statue here to pray for the blessing of his family. Therefore, Tuoba Shen often came here with his mother to make incense and make vows. After his mother's death, Tuoba Shen also asked the emperor for a separate small room to house the Buddha statue that his mother worshipped, and he often came here to worship.

In the past few days, because of the heavy snow, Tuoba Shen has not been able to get out of Qingxiao Courtyard, and when he got up early this morning to see that the sky was good, he wanted to go to the Zigong Temple to incense.

When I arrived at the outer wall of the Purple Palace Temple, I felt that today's Purple Palace Temple seemed to be much more lively than usual, thinking about the continuous storms and snowstorms in the past few days, it was not suitable for going out at all, it is estimated that many people will come here today.

Walking into the outer palace gate, I saw a few ladies chatting under the dead trees outside the main hall, and Tuoba carefully recognized a few of them as Zuo Zhaoyi Feng Qing's maids, and I saw them in Baitai a few days ago, thinking that Zuo Zhaoyi and her sister Feng Run grew up next to the queen mother in the palace in their early years, and they were female Buddhists who were subject to the prevalence of Buddhism in the palace, and they were relieved.

Maybe Zuo Zhaoyi is worshipping the Buddha now!

Since Feng Zhaoyi is also there, you can't treat it as if you haven't seen it, you still want to go to the ceremony.

When several palace maids saw Tuoba Shen coming in, they quickly stopped talking and stepped forward to pray goodbye.

"Zhaoyi is worshipping Buddha in the hall?"

"Yes, Your Highness wants to go in, and the little maid will go in and pay homage to Zhaoyi." One of the palace maids said

"No, I'll wait outside for a while, it's rare for Zhaoyi to come here today, how dare you bother, I'll wait here!"

Tuoba was in no hurry to get in, and planned to stand here and bask in the sun for a while, anyway, at this point. It was still very cold in the hall, and Feng Zhaoyi wouldn't stay long before he came out. It's better to wait for Feng Zhaoyi to come out and salute her again.

These palace maids saw that the second prince was not leaving, and it was difficult to speak anymore, so they had to accompany them here. From time to time, they looked at each other, and then at Tuoba Shen. It seems that in my heart, I wish Tuoba Shen would hurry away so that they can be more free.

After only waiting for half a moment, Feng Zhaoyi walked out of the palace gate accompanied by the maid, because the light changed greatly, his eyes were a little uncomfortable and lowered his head slowly, and when he looked up, he saw Tuoba Shen standing in front of his maid under the palace, he was stunned for a moment, and his face was a little complicated.

remembered that just a few days ago, her eldest brother Feng Dan went to the Zhongyin Hall to find her, said some words, and before leaving, he asked her to ask the emperor to send the emperor's eldest son to her to raise.

These things have been on her mind for the past two days, and she has not gone to the emperor to tell them. In her heart, she didn't want to go to the emperor to say these objectionable things. She just doesn't fight with people, but she's not stupid, she doesn't understand what her father and brother said, it's just that she has been with the emperor for a long time, and knows that although the emperor has a good character and rarely loses his temper, he has a very good idea, and he is not the kind of person who has soft ears and is easy to be swayed by others. It has been two months since the queen mother's aunt died, if the emperor intends to let her raise the eldest prince, why wait for her to beg?

Feng Zhaoyi took a few steps forward, went down the steps of the hall, looked at Tuoba Shen at the bottom of the steps, and unconsciously remembered that she and her sister had entered the palace together for many years, and for some reason, the two of them had no children for a long time. In the early years, when the biological mother of the two princes died, she wanted to ask her aunt to send the wise second prince to adopt, but because her sister said that their sisters were still young, they might not have no heirs in the future, and if they adopted other people's children now, if they had their own children in the future, it would not be easy to do, so she gave up.

A few days ago, Feng Dan talked about the adoption of the eldest prince, which made this long-hidden heart come to mind again, she is twenty-one years old this year, and there is no man and half woman for a long time, but the emperor now has to abide by the system, at least three years will not be close to the harem concubines, and she will be twenty-four years old in three years. Think about how she can not be anxious in her heart, but it is useless for her to be anxious about this matter alone, so she came here today to worship the Buddha and want to be quiet.

"Be cautious and see Zhaoyi Niangniang!" Tuoba Shen stepped forward and bowed half-kneeling.

This harem concubine is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, if you see the queen, you have to call the "queen mother" to do the full salute, if you meet a low-level, like his mother's concubine, there is no need to kneel at all. Feng Qing's Zhaoyi is second only to the queen, and now it can be said that it is the largest in the palace, so naturally it is not the same as ordinary concubines.

Feng Zhaoyi retracted her thoughts and chuckled, "Erlang, get up!" ”

"Xie Niangniang!"

"The predecessors called Ah Mu a mother, and Erlang also called his own mother Niangniang in the past?"

Tuoba Shen was stunned for a moment, what Feng Qing said was called his mother "Niangzi" It was the previous history, and now it is called the girl who has not left the cabinet. Of course, he didn't call his mother that.

"I heard that the Southern Dynasty also called her mother and mother."

"Is Erlang also my mother?"

This is even more weird, when you are not your mother and I have the final say, besides, if you become a queen in a few years, can you still stand me?

"That's it! Although the son did not serve in front of the mother's knee, he has always regarded the mother as his mother. ”

You don't need to think much about good words, just open your mouth.

"If Erlang says this, then my mother will believe it." Feng Zhaoyi smiled and stepped forward to take Tuoba Shen's hand, walked towards the private room that Tuoba Shen was looking for, and said, "Is Erlang here to offer incense today?" ”

Tuoba Shen can often meet Feng Zhaoyi here, so Feng Zhaoyi also knows what he does.

Tuoba Shen was pulled forward by Feng Zhaoyi, and it was strange in his mind, today's Feng Zhaoyi was completely different from usual! Although he is usually good to him, he doesn't have much time to hold his hand, and when he thinks back to what he said just now, he feels even more confused when he looks at Feng Zhaoyi who is pulling him.

"Yes!"

"Erlang, it's been almost five years since Concubine Zhang passed away, right?"

"Five months to go, five years."

"Are you okay in Qingxiao Courtyard all these years? Is Cao Guiren treating you well? ”

"Auntie treats her children as if she were alive, and she misses them in her heart."

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