On the fourth day after the wedding, it is the day of the Empress Chaohe, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager. However, the Empress Dowager Wang is not a person who likes to make such a fussy story, and the Empress Dowager Zhang is too lazy to sit on the kowtow of the audience, so she simply ordered to avoid this trip. And there is no one in the inner life at the moment, so naturally there is only the eldest princess, the eldest princess, the eldest princess, and many foreign women to congratulate the queen.

Early in the morning of this day, the wives who made up according to the quality gathered in front of the Fengtian Palace, but it was a lively scene. This woman Chaohe did not think that ordinary people were introduced into the palace to speak, but with the civil and military officials in the general order in front of the Fengtian Palace, and then the queen ascended to the palace, except for the two ladies of the class, the rest of the people were in the open air one by one, the most tiring errand. Therefore, in the past, every Qianqiu Festival and the winter solstice, the queen mother of the two palaces often did not want to see the wife blow the wind and suffer, and she was too lazy to toss this time, most of them issued an order to avoid congratulations. However, now it is the first time after the canonization of the queen, and it is naturally difficult to avoid it. Fortunately, today's season is lukewarm and suitable, and the heavy crown clothes are worn on the body, and the women can still survive it.

The wives from the princess and the uncle to the first lady and the second lady until the lady and the pleasant lady in the future, how can there be hundreds of people above the seventh grade, but at first glance they can be divided into several groups from the clothes, but they are clearly distinguished, and the three or three of the same grade gather together to talk. The low-grade ones don't go up, and the high-grade ones easily ignore the lower ones.

Since Shen Yue married Xu Xun, this is the first time he has entered the palace to congratulate. Although she had given birth only a few months ago, she stood among the many elderly princes and ladies because of her good maintenance and young age. Naturally, it stands out from the crowd. For example, the Marquis of Shouning, who was familiar with her, and the Duchess of Dingguo, naturally all pulled to speak, and even the eldest princess Renhe, who had always been arrogant, came over to greet her with a smile.

Dealing with this and then that, it was easy to catch a breath, and Shen Yue suddenly caught a glimpse of Mrs. Li Dongyang's wife, Zhu, who had slightly frosty sideburns and a straight waist. Thinking about the meeting in the Lingji Palace back then, she couldn't help but squint her eyes and saw people looking at her. She bowed her head slightly, and smiled again.

Mrs. Zhu, as the daughter of the Chengguo Mansion, married Li Dongyang as her wife, and Li Dongyang's stepfamily has died, and many people feel that she is wronged. However, now the girlfriend of the year, after marrying into a wealthy family, is not more than Erer, although her life is not luxurious. But her husband is a cabinet assistant, and he is also wholeheartedly devoted to her, except for the fact that he has no children under his knees, there is nothing unsatisfactory about the rest, and most people who walk outside are flattering. At this moment, seeing Shen Yue kindly saying such a silent hello, thinking of her husband's exhaustion these days, and the tone revealed last night, she groaned for a moment, and finally stepped forward.

"I haven't seen you for a few years. Mrs. Pingbei Hou made me almost dare not admit it. ”

Shen Yue didn't expect Mrs. Zhu to come up to greet her like this, although she felt strange in her heart, she still knew about the things outside, and immediately said with a smile: "Madame is still the same as before, looking younger than when I met you back then." ”

"I don't dare to take Mrs. Pingbei Hou's words, Shaohua is fleeting, and I am naturally old." Seeing that Mrs. Shouninghou and Mrs. Dingguo were interested in getting out of the way, Mrs. Zhu bowed slightly at them gratefully, and then said, "I don't know until after the congratulations are over." Is Mrs. Pingbei Hou interested in revisiting her hometown? ”

Although I don't know whether Mrs. Zhu's move is on behalf of Li Dongyang or just as a communication between wives, Shen Yue roughly listened to Xu Xun's meaning and forced Yang Tinghe away to make Li Dongyang feel isolated and helpless. Therefore, hearing Mrs. Zhu say this, she immediately replied with a smile: "That's naturally good." I heard that the two gods in the Lingji Palace are very effective. I also want to go on a pilgrimage. ..., the two just talked for a while, and when even if a eunuch came out, it was the queen who drove up. Everyone stood in the previous order. With the British lady, the second lady of Dingguo, and then the lady of Baoguo, and when it came to the level of Mrs. Hou, Shen Yueren was young and young, and Xu Xun was the new marquis, who was originally supposed to be at the end, but there were several extremely sophisticated people who arched her in front early, and for a while it was behind Mrs. Marquis of Jianchang.

After a while, I saw the queen's Luan driving slowly, and finally entered the palace and ascended to the throne. Even a person like Shen Yue, who was in the front row, could hardly see the middle palace in the hall clearly, let alone others. The English Lady and the Dingguo Lady were both led into the main hall by the female officer who led them, and soon the sound of praise came from inside.

"Kneel!"

Hundreds of women knelt down in unison with the voice of Na Si Zan, and only heard the voice of the female official Si Yan from the palace: "The British lady concubine Xu, the concubine of Dingguo Lady Liu, etc., are hereby appointed in the middle palace, and the queen is congratulated!" ”

After these words, the inside and outside of the temple were all kowtowed to congratulate. When the two ladies in the middle of the palace withdrew, the ladies were demoted one by one, and after the queen passed the decree, they bowed and congratulated each other, and this complicated etiquette came to an end. It stands to reason that at this time, the maid should guide everyone out of the palace, but before the lowest-ranking women in the latter class began to leave, a young Shangyi hurriedly came out of the palace and went straight to the front of the first few ladies. First of all, she saw Mrs. Dingguo and Mrs. Baoguo one by one, followed by Mrs. Shouning Hou and Mrs. Jianchang, and she arrived in front of Shen Yue.

"But Mrs. Pingbei?" After that Shangyi saluted, seeing Shen Yue nodding in response, she smiled and said, "The queen invites the Marquis of Pingbei to speak in Kunning Palace." ”

Shen Yue was thinking about what to do with Mrs. Zhu's invitation, but found that after Na Shangyi had spoken to her, she went straight to the back, starting with Mrs. Zhu, and ordered several important ministers and women in a row. Seeing that everyone else was looking at his youngest self with envy, Shen Yue could finally understand the helplessness of the young Xu Xun among those old adults for a while. When Queen Luan drove first and everyone followed closely to Kunning Palace, she was a little suspicious in her heart.

It seems that the queen did not leave her own relatives, but left them behind, but why?

However, Zhou Qiniang, who returned to Kunning Palace first, gave Zhu Houzhao a cold face - although he gave it after he withdrew the person. Seeing the little emperor's face full of flattery. She finally sighed, and didn't use a too formal tone, but still said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, I know that you are for my good, but you have called all the wives of civil and military ministers to Kunning Palace in such an unknown way, what do you want me to say to them?" Let them assist their husbands and sons-in-law and help the emperor well? But they are all a lot old, where can they not understand these truths. I say it's inevitable to be arrogant. But if you want to say any homely gossip, it is not so familiar now, and there is no reason for people to sit and be restrained. Spread to the ears of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, it doesn't matter if I am responsible, what will you say, Your Majesty? ”

Zhu Houzhao was speechless, he originally wanted to make Kunning Palace lively, and by the way, let the queen and those ladies get acquainted with each other, but who knows that the ladies have always been awe-inspiring in the face of the queen. and he faced the ministers with a reason.

Zhou Qiniang saw the person's weak appearance, and immediately sighed again. Although she comes from a small family and doesn't know too many big truths about the court, Zhu Houzhao has summoned people under false pretenses, and it is impossible for her not to see her. So, after thinking about it, she finally thought of a solution that was not a solution.

In the evening, as soon as Xu Xun entered the house, he saw a pot of orchids in the house, and the white flowers were particularly pleasing to the eye at first glance. He immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "I remember that I have never planted orchids at home, who gave this home?" "...," was rewarded by the queen's mother. Shen Yue raised her head and replied, and when she saw that Xu Xun was stunned when she heard this, she opened her mouth and added, "To be precise, it should be given by the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager on behalf of the Empress Dowager." In addition to this, there is also the citrus that has just been handed down, which is a novelty. Although there are occasional rewards in the palace on weekdays, this time it was given by the queen mother on behalf of the queen mother of the two palaces, which is naturally even different. ”

Speaking of which. Thinking of the scene when he was watching a play in Xianyuan and bumped into the little emperor leading Zhou Qiniang out secretly, Shen Yue couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth, and then said with a smile: "It's not me blaming the emperor behind my back, when I was sitting there and talking, I saw that the curtain in the back of my head seemed to have been opened, and I thought that the people around the queen would not be so reckless, and the emperor must be peeking there." I don't know. Leaving me and a number of civil and military ministers' wives, it is estimated that it is also a fake decree from the emperor. Fortunately, after the queen bestowed it, she just asked some questions and let everyone out. I went to Lingji Palace with Mrs. Zhu to pay homage. ”

Xu Xun has long been accustomed to Zhu Houzhao's temperament of doing whatever he wants, and after smiling at this moment, he couldn't help but sigh that Zhou Qiniang was still clever after all, and finally covered up the unexpected act of summoning these important ministers' wives, and it was given on behalf of the two palaces, which can be regarded as a favor for the two queen mothers. However, when he heard about Mrs. Zhu, his relaxed expression just now suddenly became solemn.

"Mrs. Zhu? Is it the wife of Fu Li Dongyang? After receiving Shen Yue's affirmative reply, he asked with blazing eyes, "She invited you to Lingji Palace, what did you say?" ”

She said that the two gods in the Lingji Palace are the best at keeping people healthy. That's why he was able to seal the real person from the beginning of the Yongle period to the Chenghua year. She said that Fu seemed to be a little mentally and physically poor recently, so she went to pay a respect, and said that it was extremely effective for children, so I naturally followed. Shen Yue blinked, and said with a smile, "As for after arriving at Lingji Palace, she said that even if our Fu Master rarely goes home now, he has no time to preside over any literary and poetry meetings, and often changes into cloth clothes and goes out from the back alley, and goes to the Twin Pagoda Temple in Yongfang, you should know what this means." ”

"Thank you for telling me!" Xu Xun sat down with a smile and arched his hand, and when the nurse came over with the child, he grabbed Shen Yue and reached out to snatch the person over, hugged and kissed for a while, and saw the little guy rubbing his chin, blinking his eyes as if he was a little puzzled, he suddenly laughed, "Good girl, do you know that your father has shaved the little beard that just grew out today?" If you don't have hair on your mouth, you can't do things firmly, since your father is still young, he doesn't want to pretend to be full of vicissitudes with a beard. It's going to take a few more decades for your dad to compete with the bosses! ”

Shen Yue was amused by Xu Xun's strange words, especially what youth, what vicissitudes of life, in the end, she simply stood up and came to Xu Xun, and personally stretched out her hand to rub Xu Xun's smooth chin twice, and then smiled: "That's it, no matter how much you pretend to be old, you can't get old." To-day I stood among the ladies, and everybody admired me for my youth, and at first I was not used to it, but then I got used to it, and I felt so good. It's hard to buy an inch of time, this is our blessing! ”

"That's right, it's a blessing!"

The Twin Pagoda Temple facing West Chang'an Street in Yongfang is also called Daqingshou Temple, in the Jin Yuan Dynasty, it was once one of the most famous temples, according to legend, when the Yuan Dynasty built the capital, it was once in order to avoid the Daqingshou Temple, and let the city wall turn a corner. Even at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous celebrity here - Daoyan monk Yao Guangxiao. However, with the death of this legendary figure who was posthumously crowned Rong Guogong, this temple underwent orthodox reconstruction, and was once renamed Daxinglong Temple, also known as Ci'en Temple, and most of the people are called Twin Pagoda Temple. The twin towers in the temple are nine floors, one is seven floors, climb high and look far away, but you can see the west garden in the palace and even the palace. Therefore, after Yongle, ordinary people were once forbidden to climb the tower, and then fewer people paid attention to this matter. …,

However, now the Shuangta Temple has long been without the scenery of Jin Yuan, and there is no longer the strange person who can seek for the Son of Heaven in the early Ming Dynasty. Although the tall brick tower often has good men and women climb the steps, it is not like Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty after all, and the lifters are proud of the name of the wild goose tower. At this moment, when Li Dongyang stood in front of the Haiyun Master Tower, he stopped and looked up for a while, but he didn't have the slightest intention of going in and climbing the tower. It wasn't until he heard rustling footsteps behind him, and then stopped not far behind him, that he turned around.

Even if he was wearing a cloth shirt, he still looked elegant and neat when he wore a green coat on Li Dongyang, and at first glance he seemed to be an old pedant. And Xu Xun is also dressed in green clothes and black cloth shoes, and with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he is no different from an ordinary young scholar. What's more, now that the autumn season has just ended, the entire Shuntianfu exam students are waiting for the list, and the combination of the two, the old and the young, is even more unsurprising.

"Isn't Mr. Siya going to climb the tower?"

His wife, Mrs. Zhu, came back and said this, Li Dongyang didn't bring anyone early in the morning, and quietly came to this Shuangta Temple, and it didn't take long for Xu Xun to come, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Hearing this invitation at this moment, he looked up at the tall brick tower again, but shook his head and said, "At my age, I won't suffer this sin." Since you're here, let's take a walk around the temple. ”

Li Dongyang said so, although Xu Xun didn't intend to be strong, but he still said with a smile: "Today's Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, there will be more people in the temple than usual, Mr. Xiya came early, there was no one outside the mountain gate, and when I just came in, I already saw a lot of incense." If you climb the tower, I ask the monks in the temple to close the door and not let the idlers climb the tower, but there is still a clean place to talk, but if you go around the temple, I am afraid that there will be noise later. If Mr. Xiya is worried about whether he can go up or down, it's a big deal that I, a junior, will carry you down at that time. ”

ps: It turns out that the pilgrimage is not to Kunning Palace, but a large number of people are kneeling and worshiping in the open air, no wonder I often see the Ming Shilu written in the Qianqiu Festival and so on......