Leng Yi said goodbye and rushed to the gate of the palace, where Yusi and the guard Huang Xiaozhong were already waiting. Huang Xiaozhong was very grateful, and when he saw Leng Yi, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you Lord Leng for borrowing money so that the villain can marry Miss Yusi as his wife, and the villain will never forget it." ”

Leng Yi smiled and let him get up, and said, "Yusi has other things to do tonight, and she may be able to go back later." You go with my guards now to get the money, and immediately ask the media to say goodbye, and you want to get married as soon as possible. Because after Mrs. Zun got married, there were other tasks to be completed. ”

Huang Xiaozhong has been in the palace for a long time, he knows the rules of the palace, and he doesn't dare to ask any more tasks, so he quickly bows down and agrees.

Leng Yi called his guards who were waiting at the gate of the palace, explained to the two guards, and asked them to go home and tell his wife Zhuo Qiaoniang to lend money to this guard Huang Xiaozhong. Then, with Yusi, he came to the Imperial Garden of the Inner Court.

The lanterns in the Imperial Garden are dazzling and colorful.

The trees in the entire Imperial Garden are full of colorful lanterns, and the entire Imperial Garden has become a sea of lights, dotted with stars everywhere, shining like stars.

Between the flowers and trees, there is a team of palace eunuchs and palace maids composed of fish and dragon teams, carrying various colored lanterns in the swimming, these lights not only have the common hexagonal octagonal palace lanterns, but also all kinds of colorful lanterns of birds and beasts such as flying dragons, carp, phoenixes, tigers and leopards. It's all sorted, and it's dizzying. Carrying it among the flowers and trees, it is like a hundred beasts walking through it.

And a bright moon hangs in the night sky, although it is bright and starry, but the palace maids and eunuchs set off a gorgeous fireworks, but turned into a starry spot, embellishing the night sky into a splendid fairyland.

The palace maids are wearing bright dresses one by one, embellished with snow, and they are even more coquettish.

There is a huge palace in the middle of the imperial garden, and on the wide courtyard in front of the gate, there are many richly decorated carriages, which are the carriages and horses of the princes and ministers who live outside the palace and are invited to the Lantern Festival.

In the palace, there is a faint sound of lively and festive drum music, which sets off the festivity of the festival.

The main hall is even more lively, the upper position in the middle is a semi-circular warm pavilion, slightly higher than the surrounding feet of a platform, on which the emperor's golden dragon chair and dragon-shaped long cases are placed. Under the dragon chair, rows of coffee tables and chairs are placed around the semicircle, on which are placed all kinds of melon and fruit snacks, as well as exquisite food and wine.

On the wall on one side of the dragon chair, there is a portrait more than one person high, but it is covered with a white cloth. I don't know what the portrait is.

On both sides of the main hall, court musicians are playing music. The four corners are lit with red fires, which makes the whole hall full of spring.

The other walls of the room are full of colorful lanterns, and on the lanterns, there are riddles written one by one. The people who arrived first were excitedly looking at the lanterns and guessing the riddles on them.

People who participated in the Lantern Festival came one after another, and the people who came, in addition to Zhao Guangyi's own concubines, also included the concubines of Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin. The princes and princesses who came, including the children of Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, King of Qi Zhao Tingmei, and the current Emperor Zhao Guangyi. Because after Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he issued a decree announcing that the children of the three families would all be called princes and princesses. That is, they are all princes and princesses. In addition, there are also important ministers of the imperial court, Chu Zhaofu, Lu Duoxun, Zhao Pu, Cao Bin and others. A room full of sitting.

These concubines, princesses, princesses, and county lords are dressed up one by one, full of all kinds of jeweled jewelry, foggy sideburns, dresses and ribbons, and rouge powder.

After all the invited people arrived, the drums sounded in unison, and in the sound of silk and bamboo, Emperor Zhao Guangyi walked out in one step. And they all stood up in greeting. After Zhao Guangyi sat down, he glanced at everyone present, waved his hand, and everyone sat down.

Zhao Guangyi was not in a hurry to speak, his eyes searched the crowd, and finally found Mrs. Hua Rui.

She sat next to Queen Kaibao, wearing a monk's robe, her hair was like a cloud, her face was as white as a petal, delicate as a stamen, and her monk's robe was wide, but she couldn't hide her graceful posture, bowing her head, as if the old monk was settled, but it was so outstanding, elegant and noble, and dusty. Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

Madame Blossom's position was arranged closest to the embroidery, and under the bonsai shelf next to the embroidery, a small hole had been poked, and Leng Yi was hiding in the back room, and Madame Blossom could observe Madame Blossom's painting from the small hole. Of course, there was only Leng Yi alone in that room.

Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but beat his heart as soon as he saw Mrs. Hua Rui. Seeing her and seeing Xiao Zhouhou are two different concepts, for Xiao Zhouhou, he is full of silver desire and just wants to conquer tyrannyly. As for Mrs. Blossom, she is in love and longing, and cherishes in her heart. In fact, this also confirms the saying: "What you can't get is the best". Xiao Zhouhou and Mrs. Hua Rui are both the emperor's women, and they both have the same appearance that captivates the country and the city, and they are both talented and beautiful. It's just that Xiao Zhou got it later, and Zhao Guangyi didn't cherish it very much, but Mrs. Hua Rui couldn't touch it, and it was difficult to even see each other, which made Zhao Guangyi extremely eager to get it.

Zhao Guangyi took his eyes off her with difficulty. Said: "Today is the Lantern Festival, according to the convention, we are to enjoy the lanterns and guess the lantern riddles, and spend the Lantern Festival together." However, today's Lantern Festival is different from the past, that is, I have a treasure and want to share it with you. ”

As soon as I heard that the emperor had treasures to show, these were people from Fugui Township, what kind of treasures had not been seen, but the emperor's treasure, that must be worthy of these two words can be counted, I couldn't help but be a little curious, and looked at Zhao Guangyi together.

Zhao Guangyi turned his gaze to the wall, pointed to the hidden embroidery on the wall, and said, "This is the treasure I said." Open it! ”

Wang Jien personally lifted the white cloth that covered it, revealing the figure embroidery below.

Almost all of them were stunned, because the embroidery was completely different from what they had seen before, and it was lifelike in comparison. Far more realistic than the flat white embroidery they were used to, it looked like a living person was standing there. In addition, this palace maid herself can be regarded as beautiful, and Leng Yi caught her smile the sweetest time and filmed it, so it looks even more attractive, and those young princes even have straight eyes when they see it.

However, there was only one person who was indifferent, and did not even turn her head to look at the embroidery, as if there was nothing in this world that could make her heart move, she just lowered her eyebrows and lowered her head, as if the old monk was in a state of mind. She is the beautiful and talented Mrs. Blossom.

Because it had been said in advance, Mrs. Hua Rui had to face the direction of the embroidered portrait, so that Leng Yi behind the hole could observe the painting, but since Madame Hua Rui came in and sat down, she kept her head down and looked down, without greeting anyone, nor looking around, so naturally she did not look at the embroidery. Now, everyone in the audience was amazed, but she didn't seem to hear it, which made Wang Jien anxious. However, he was in a hurry, but there was nothing he could do, and he couldn't just let Madame Blossom turn her face.

Zhao Guangyi on the dragon chair was also very anxious, but he was resourceful in the end, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he thought of an idea, Zhao Guangyi laughed first, and the laughter was even a little exaggerated, which even startled a few people in the front row. He laughed like this, of course, to get the attention of Madame Blossom. so that she can hear what she has to say.

Mrs. Hua Rui was only a few steps away from Zhao Guangyi, so Zhao Guangyi's exaggerated laughter naturally alarmed her. Zhao Guangyi found that although her posture was still not moving, her body was still trembling with fright, and he knew that she had noticed her words. Hurriedly striking while the iron was hot, he said, "Everyone, do you know who the woman on the embroidery is?" ”

There are thousands of palace maids in the palace, who can recognize them all, looked at them carefully, and shook their heads together.

Zhao Guangyi raised his voice further and said, "She is the personal maid of the late Qin Duke Meng Chang!" Do you look like it? ”

As soon as these words came out, Madame Blossom's delicate body trembled, turned around, looked at the portrait, and was shocked again, and her eyes fixed on the embroidery, and never turned away.

The Qin Duke Meng Chang mentioned by Zhao Guangyi is the ex-husband of Lady Hua Rui, that is, the emperor of the Later Shu Kingdom. After Houshu was destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty, Meng Chang returned to the Song Dynasty and was named the Duke of Qin, but was poisoned by Zhao Kuangyin only a few days later. And Mrs. Hua Rui was forcibly occupied by Zhao Kuangyin and named a concubine. In order to protect herself, Mrs. Hua Rui endured humiliation and obedience, but she always missed her husband Meng Chang in her heart.

Because she missed her deceased husband, Mrs. Hua Rui secretly painted a portrait of her husband to worship. One day, Zhao Kuangyin, who suddenly broke in, found that although Mrs. Hua Rui is also good at Danqing, but due to the limitations of the freehand style of Chinese painting, which is generally not realistic, although Meng Chang painted by Madame Hua Rui has been very careful to paint more like, but unfortunately, it is only a little similar. And it was for this reason that Zhao Kuangyin failed to recognize this as Meng Chang, the ex-husband of Mrs. Hua Rui, who was poisoned by him.

However, Zhao Kuangyin felt a little familiar, so he asked who was the person on this portrait memorialized by Mrs. Hua Rui? Mrs. Hua Rui had an idea, and hypothesized that it was Zhang Xian, the fairy who was in charge of sending her son. If you make an offering, you will have a son. That's what happened. But this lie was taken seriously by many people, and many concubines brought painters to Madame Hua Rui to copy the portrait and worship it in front of the gods. Later, it spread to the people. Meng Chang's image also became the appearance of Zhang Xian, the son god in Taoism.

Mrs. Hua Rui's lies deceived Zhao Kuangyin, but she couldn't deceive Zhao Guangyi. He identified the person in the portrait as Mrs. Hua Rui's ex-husband Meng Chang, and he also knew from this incident that Mrs. Hua Rui did not wholeheartedly obey her brother Zhao Kuangyin, so she thought that she had an opportunity to seduce Madame Hua Rui many times, but she did not succeed. Until Zhao Kuangyin died, Mrs. Hua Rui chose to lead the practice and lived in the Buddhist hall in the palace, without seeing outsiders. It has been even more difficult for Zhao Guangyi to see her since then.

Just now, Zhao Guangyi said that this embroidery statue is Meng Chang's maid, in fact, Zhao Guangyi himself doesn't know who the palace maid on this embroidery statue is, he hypothesized that it was Meng Chang's former maid, just because he knew that Mrs. Hua Rui had a deep affection for Meng Chang, and when it came to the maid next to Meng Chang, she loved the house and Wu, so she was likely to turn her head to look at it, so that Leng Yi could observe the painting.

Sure enough, when Mrs. Hua Rui heard that it was the maid next to her deceased husband Meng Chang, who she was thinking about at night, she couldn't help but turn around and look.

Meng Chang is a lover (or a big pervert), when he was emperor, he summoned thousands of young beauties from all over the country to serve as palace maids, and often favored the best of them. When he returned to the Great Song Dynasty, he brought all the palace maids he liked in the palace, and there were hundreds of them. is Meng Chang's wife, and Mrs. Hua Rui can't all know the so-called maids around these husbands.

Madame Blossom was stunned by the embroidered figure on the wall, not because she recognized the maid, but because she was shocked by this very realistic embroidered figure.

Madame Blossom has never seen such realistic figure embroidery, and she is also very good at female embroidery. However, she asked herself that she didn't have the ability to embroider such a realistic portrait. I secretly thought in my heart, if I could learn this portrait embroidery method, wouldn't I be able to embroider a realistic portrait of my deceased husband Meng Chang? Isn't it enough to soothe the sorrow of the heart?

So, she couldn't take her eyes off the embroidery, figuring out the stitches and threads on it, but the more she looked at it, the more she felt profound, the more magical she felt, and she couldn't help but look at it stupidly.

Zhao Guangyi saw that she really looked at the embroidered statue, and kept looking at it, and he was in the middle of it. I was very happy, I wanted to take a closer look at her peerless face, but I was afraid that I would be embarrassed by a room of people. He slowly turned his gaze and said to everyone: "Everyone, are you interested in knowing how such a realistic embroidery is embroidered?" ”

Although there are a lot of women in the field, they are either concubines or princesses, they are all masters of needles and threads, what kind of embroidery do you want, naturally someone will help embroider it, and you don't have to worry about it, but they are very good at speculating on other people's thoughts, especially for the emperor's thoughts, which need to be more careful. Listening to Zhao Guangyi's words, he was obviously very proud of this embroidery, and if he wanted to show it, he naturally had to follow his thoughts, so they all pretended to be interested and nodded one after another. And Zhao Pu and other important ministers of the court, although they were not interested in knowing any embroidery methods, they also knew how to make fun, and they also twisted their beards and listened attentively.

Zhao Guangyi said: "This method was thought up by Leng Yi, the official of Kaifeng Mansion and my imperial guard, and after pondering with the palace embroiderer, it took several months to finally complete it." ”

Everyone in the audience was full of praise or true or false, those concubines and princesses didn't care about political affairs, so few people knew Leng Yi. Those important ministers of the imperial court are always concerned about the changes in the celebrities around the emperor, as early as when Zhao Guangyi rewarded Leng Yi with the gold belt, many of them have already set their eyes on this young man. After Leng Yi was ordered to be transferred to Kaifeng as a magistrate, but he did not take office for several months, and often went in and out of the palace, he knew that this person was not trivial.

(To be continued)