The day when Wang Xiang and Xuannu entered the palace was the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, the Chinese Valentine's Day. Although Qixi Festival is said to be a begging festival, it is not a major festival in the palace in the Li Dynasty, and if it is not deliberate, there will never be any celebrations. But this night, there will be an ingenious competition in the Luoyang Palace, which is the "Chang'e Poetry Meeting" proposed and organized by the queen Lin Yuebai and the noble concubine Wei Nanyan, and the invites are all harem concubines and the daughter of the clan with titles and noble status. Si Qing, as a first-class palace maid beside Concubine Shugui, passed the word to all palaces early, this time, regardless of grade, all palace maids, female officials and even medical women can participate, everyone only needs to use their own sachets and sachets made with colored threads, Yingluo or other small ornaments embroidered with their names, and then sent to the Luoyang Hall before the day of the Chinese Valentine's Day, with the Luoyang Palace in advance of the unified preparation of the blue bag and bundled mouth, and then put into the Luoyang Hall of the big bronze tripod; after the evening of the poetry will begin, the invited concubines and female dependents each have a chance to hook out a bag from the copper tripod, and make a poem with the things in the bag, if the people present feel that the poem is done well, then tie a silver thread on the bag, and finally whose bag is the most online, the owner of the bag can win the first prize of the night's poetry meeting, the jackpot is a pair of jade and gold jade braceletsIt was personally brought by Concubine Wei Shu and His Majesty, and it was the best product, and the rest of the people, according to the amount of silk thread tied on their belts, will also have their own rewards, and will be rewarded together at the poetry meeting.

This activity has been the harem of the people, especially those nameless little palace maids of great support, everyone thinks that if the prize is naturally good, but if you can stand out at the poetry meeting, if any of the nobles present fancy their own craftsmanship or fancy themselves, can be transferred to the nobleman's palace to serve, then you can change your fate in one fell swoop, and it is the most convenient promotion channel. In the harem of the Li Dynasty today, the new emperor succeeded to the throne not long ago, unless the old man Wei Nanyan of the former dynasty was named the concubine, he never expressed his favor to any concubine, only the queen of the middle palace stood out, not only the holy family was rich but also had a dragon heir. But there are very few examples of the queen's long-term favor in history, most of them are young couples and juvenile love, and the excitement may not be able to be lively for a lifetime, and although this queen is not very old, she is extremely bland, and she has never heard of any easy to please the place, and there are already two big girls brought into the palace by the family, and it is not easy to squeeze into the queen's side; Give yourself and your family a full of glory. Although the little palace maids are not very old and don't know much, they know the truth of retreating to the second, where is there no hope for the queen, but if they can cast a good master with a deep family background, one day the master will get face, and their future will be very good, which is tantamount to the second reincarnation in life, which is very important.

So everyone racked their brains to work their own things, all thinking about how to look good, how auspicious, how easy to let the nobles and masters make poems, and to prevent people from stealing their own ideas, until the afternoon of the day of Qixi Festival, there are still many palace maids who have not sent their things to the Luoyang Palace, and those who are not on duty are secretly thinking about making things more delicate and beautiful. And the little palace maids of Chenghuan Xiaozhu are no exception, they all know that with an eldest princess who has not yet left the cabinet, the future will either accompany her to marry far away or be transferred elsewhere, and there is no good opportunity for glory and wealth at all, plus this eldest princess has a strange temperament and is difficult to approach, and they all want to leave this court as soon as possible and neglect Chenghuan Xiaozhu. When Wang Xiang and Xuannu were led by the eunuch to the porch outside the study, they saw that there were few palace maids on duty along the way, and only two elderly old aunts leaned listlessly on the doorpost under the corridor.

In the past, in the Nanguo Mansion, how could anyone dare to be so lazy and lazy! Even if His Royal Highness is not the lord of the country now, but also Her Royal Highness, the chief princess of the palace, how can the people in the palace bow down and despise Her Highness like this! Xuan Nu read his anger from the eyes of the king, and hurriedly gently pulled his cuffs, and the two of them hung their heads and stood aside, and after the eunuch followed the old palace maid in and got permission, the two knelt down together and said loudly:

"The king of the grass people, the daughter of the people, knock on Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess Chitose Chitose Chitose!"

At this time, a palace maid who looked like a female official walked out and said softly to the two: "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has been waiting for the two of you for a long time, please come in with me." ”

Seeing that this woman spoke and talked quite well, and her dress did not look like the palace people outside, she smiled cautiously and asked, "I bother this sister to lead the way, but the grass people don't know how to thank them." Seeing that my sister has a noble temperament and elegant manners, I don't know what kind of noble person my sister is in this palace, can you tell the grass people your title, and it is convenient for the grass people to call you, don't call it badly, wrong rules in this palace, it will be bad. ”

When the palace maid heard such compliments, she didn't show the slightest smugness, and still replied gently: "The two really look down on the slave maid, the slave maid is the female official of this Chenghuan Xiaozhu, and she was just assigned yesterday, so she is really not a nobleman." I heard that the two were old friends of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, so I just called the slave maid 'Zixiang'. ”

At this time, Wang Xiang, who had been bowing his head and not speaking, glanced up at her slightly, and said, "Dare to ask Miss Zixiang, how do you know that the two grass people are old friends of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess?"

Zixiang smiled slightly and said: "Zixiang is kind to the queen, and the queen mother assigned a slave to serve Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, and the slave and maid dare not be unsatisfied. Knowing that there are guests arriving today, Zixiang naturally has to inquire clearly in advance in order to make proper arrangements, so that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess can catch up with the two of them with peace of mind——"

When the words fell, Zixiang had already led Wang Xiang and Xuannu to the study, only to see that the woman sitting in the hall was dressed in a palace dress with blue sea patterns, wearing a small tourmaline jade crown, with a fair complexion, cherry lips and a good complexion, and a pair of bright big eyes were looking at them, it was Yao Jin himself.

"The king knocks to see His Highness!"

"Xuannu knocks to see Your Highness!"

Yao Jin looked at the two people kneeling in the hall, and the mood that was originally very happy suddenly became sad and joyful, especially listening to their "Your Highness", she felt that her eyes were hot and her nose was sour, remembering that in the past in the Nanguo Mansion, everyone also called herself Your Highness, but your Highness at that time and Your Highness today are very different, one is a fish swimming in the sea, and the other is already a bird with broken wings in a cage, and Xiao Nanguo no longer exists. She closed her eyes and held back the tears that were about to fall, and said with a smile: "Get up quickly, there is no one else here, there is no need for this." ”