When it comes to the day of the Queen Mother's Thousand Autumn Festival, because Concubine Tong is still sick in the palace and can't take charge, the Queen Mother doesn't want to be extravagant and wasteful, but because this year is the Queen Mother's 40-year-old birthday, she must celebrate it well.

As early as the beginning of August, there were courtiers and officials from all over the country to present birthday gifts to the queen mother, and the queen mother sat in Cining Palace and looked at these good things in her palace, without a smile on her face.

Ji Qin sent away the palace people who came to give birthday gifts, and walked to the queen mother with a cup of tea with a smile, "Queen Mother, tomorrow is your birthday, you can be happy." ”

The Queen Mother holds a handle of the Jiangsu Governor to offer the gold inlaid auspicious cloud jade jade Ruyi, this Ruyi jade is smooth and delicate, without a trace of impurities, and the oil is bright and green, plus the real gold hollow pattern and the auspicious cloud birthday picture carved by skilled craftsmen, it is really simple and atmospheric, low-key luxury.

"This jade ruyi is a good thing, put it away."

The Empress Dowager sighed softly, and then asked, "How did Yinqi eat today?" ”

Ji Qin quickly found a brocade box to put away the jade Ruyi, and replied while collecting it, "I ate very well, I ate a lot more than yesterday, and I also know that tomorrow is the birthday of the Queen Mother, so I also want to eat more." ”

A smile appeared on the Queen Mother's face, "He's still so young, where can he understand that?" ”

The fine lines at the corners of her eyes gradually stretched, and although she said so, the smile on her face was many times more sincere than she did just now.

"Queen Mother, just now the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent several more clothes, why don't you take advantage of the free time now, and the slave and maid will come to show you?"

"Okay."

After a while, Ji Qin came in with more than a dozen little palace maids in green palace maid clothes, each holding a dress in his hand.

"Why are there so many?"

"Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs also sent a lot of clothes a few days ago, but I thought that you were a birthday star, and no matter how many clothes there were, it was not enough to wear, so I made a few more for you overnight, and asked the Queen Mother to palm your eyes and see how the craftsmanship of this slave of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is?"

After so many years in the palace, I have seen a lot, and the Queen Mother swept her eyes and knew that these clothes were excellent in terms of material selection and embroidery.

It is... The color is too old-fashioned, it's moss green, red sandalwood, and crow blue, but think about it, she is the queen mother, and what bright colors do she wear.

The queen mother didn't say anything bad or good, and waved her hand to let the dozen palace maids retreat.

"Queen Mother, what's wrong with you?"

The Empress Dowager touched her face and asked, "Jiqin, did you say that the mourning family is already old?" ”

"How so?" Ji Qin helped the Queen Mother to sit down, "The Queen Mother is in the prime of life, and she has these good things in the palace, it looks like a double decade." ”

The Queen Mother smiled and leaned back and nodded her forehead, "You, you're used to being a trickster." ”

"As long as you can make the Queen Mother happy, don't say it's a trick, even if the Queen Mother lets the slave and maid climb the pole, the slave and maid are willing."

"What do you want the mourning family to do those things," the queen mother glanced at her with a smile, "Over the years, it has been the most intimate acquaintance you have served, the governor is polite, and the things are decent, and more importantly, the small mouth is sweet as if it has been smeared with honey, and the mourning family is no longer so boring in this palace." ”

"Being able to serve the queen mother is already the greatest blessing in the life of a slave."

The Empress Dowager smiled without saying a word, and then asked in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager will also participate in this mourning family's birthday banquet." ”

Ji Qin also lowered his voice and replied: "Yes, the Empress Dowager has been worshipping Buddha for many days, but a month and a half ago came the news, I heard that the Empress Dowager has announced that the servants of the Internal Affairs Office are going to make new clothes for her, and I think I want to wear them tomorrow." ”

Hearing the news, the Queen Mother was not only not half happy, but her expression became more and more solemn.

As the niece of the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager can be described as loving, fearing and hating the Empress Dowager, on the one hand, blood is thicker than water between them, on the other hand, it was the Empress Dowager who personally sent her into this deep palace.

Yes, the Empress Dowager has been treating her well all these years, but what can she do, it is nothing more than to make up for the mistakes she made back then, in this deep palace, she has never gotten love, joy and happiness, all she has gotten is that little bit of family affection that is walking on thin ice.

These days, the Empress Dowager has been concentrating on worshipping the Buddha and ignoring palace affairs, and the Empress Dowager suddenly felt that the restraints on her body disappeared all at once.

She has never felt that life in the palace is so free, no one asks her to ask her for this and that, and no one will reprimand her or reprimand him in front of the palace minions, she is the real queen mother of the Qing Dynasty!

But this kind of good days are coming to an end, thinking of this, the light in the queen mother's eyes suddenly dimmed, and she returned to her previous honest and wooden mud bodhisattva-like appearance, rubbed her forehead, and asked with a little tiredness in her tone: "How did the emperor arrange tomorrow's birthday banquet?" ”

"Yes, the emperor knows that the Queen Mother doesn't like luxury, so he deliberately set up the birthday banquet in Yongshou Palace, but considering that this is the Queen Mother's 40th birthday, he will order someone to carry the Queen Mother from Qingyi Garden to Xihua Gate, and accept the bows of the ministers along the way."

The Queen Mother nodded, "Yes, this arrangement is very much in line with the mourning family's wishes." ”

glanced at the Western species among the flowers on the table, and stretched out his hand to Jiqin, "It's all this time, the mourning family is tired, help the mourning family to take a nap for a while." ”

"Queen Mother, slow down when you get up, otherwise you will get dizzy."

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Jingyang Palace

Shu Wan had already prepared a congratulatory gift for the Empress Dowager, and after carefully inspecting one side, she stamped her own fire paint seal on the brocade box, and then handed it to Zhixing to let her take it to the Internal Affairs Mansion, and then unpack it in front of the Empress Dowager at a banquet in Ming'er.

After doing all this, Shu Wan said that she was tired, asked Zhiqiu to help her into the bedroom to rest for a while, and ordered no one to disturb.

Zhiqiu was naturally accustomed to her habit for a long time, and after helping her to the bed, he took a small stool and quietly guarded the door embroidering flowers.

After Shu Wan saw that everyone in the room had withdrawn, she put down the bed tent and entered the space in a flash.

The space was as calm as ever, disturbing the falling peach blossoms and gurgling spiritual springs, as well as a large area of medicinal fields that she had cultivated herself.

In the medicine field, there are not only common medicines such as notoginseng, coptis chinensis, and angelica, but also valuable medicinal materials such as ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, and saffron.

Of course, all the medicinal materials are irrigated by the spiritual spring from growth to growth, and their medicinal power is more than ten times higher than that of ordinary medicinal materials.

She calmed down and sat cross-legged under a peach blossom tree to cultivate.

There was a burst of whispering in her ears, she hooked her lips and smiled, opened her eyes, and shouted softly, "Little leaf." ”

A little green man came running towards her, "La-la-la-la, master, you're here." ”

Shu Wan leaned over slightly, and Xiao Yezi failed to fly into her arms, and grabbed her arm instead.

Because after Xiao Yezi recovered from her injury, she couldn't go out in this space, and she was already regarded as the master, so Shu Wan could only let Xiao Yezi live here temporarily, and she could also take care of these medicinal materials in the medicine field for her.

Xiao Yezi pinched his waist and pointed to the medicine field in the distance, "Master, I watered you today." ”

"Okay, good, you're the best."

Shu Wan touched his head and found that he seemed to have grown up a little again.

"Xiao Yezi, you have grown up again today, have you stolen medicinal herbs?"

Because the number of pills in the space is limited, Shu Wan has already ordered that Xiao Ye is not allowed to eat these pills casually, but because she later planted a lot of medicinal materials in the space, for plant goblins like Xiao Yezi, such medicinal materials are also extremely delicious snacks.

Xiao Ye's green little face showed a little red, and he pouted and said, "Just, just eat one." ”

"There is still one less, and if it goes on like this, the medicine field will be eaten by you."

"How so?" Xiao Yezi waved his hand, "I'm not the kind of goblin who has no conscience." ”

Shu Wan rolled her eyes directly, "You are an upright goblin, do you have a heart?" ”

"Yes! Of course! ”

Xiao Yezi spit out a crimson thing in one bite, handed it to Shu Wan, and said proudly: "Master, look, this is my heart." ”

"Ahem", Shu Wan was taken aback by this move, fortunately her psychological endurance was higher, otherwise she would have to be scared and faint.

She carefully looked at the thing in Xiao Yezi's hand, it was a red ball, a small one, not like a human heart.

"This is your Nedan, right?"

Xiao Yezi nodded, opened his mouth and ate Nedan into it, and then asked, "Is there any difference between Nedan and Heart?" ”

Shu Wan pondered for a while very seriously, "Uh..., the heart is made of meat, and Neidan is not made of meat." ”

"But don't humans sometimes speak of hard-heartedness? Is the heart also made of iron and stone? ”

"Oh, this is just a rhetorical device of our human beings, just like some people compare a very beautiful human woman to a vixen, that doesn't mean that the woman is a real vixen."

Xiao Yezi spread his hand helplessly, and it happened that a peach blossom petal fell on his hand, he approached and blew, and the petal swirled in the air and then fell.

"You humans are really complicated."

Shu Wan smiled lightly, as if she was sighing, "Yes, it's very complicated, but when you grow up in the future, you will definitely meet many strange goblins, maybe the world of goblins is more complicated than the world of humans." ”

"Growing up?" Xiao Yezi showed a puzzled expression on his face, and then flew to the peach blossom tree to find a branch that was very comfortable to lean on, and said in a stinky voice: "If I want to grow up, it will take a long time." ”