"Hurry up, Mrs. Yao go faster."

After coming in from the Donghua Gate of the Great Song Palace, Ma Yun has been urging Yao Huan.

Ma Yun is a little waiter who followed Liang Shicheng to the Shen family's restaurant to pick up vegetables, his head is like a spongeBob SquarePants, his forehead is protruding, his eyes are sunken, fortunately, his nose is round, the corners of his mouth are always upturned, and his eyes are even more happy.

The above characteristics make his appearance strange but not ugly, and he looks like a saint angelo, as if the next sentence is "sister, there is your express".

He did bring good news to Yao Huan.

A moment ago, Yao Huan and Qinghe, the maid of Zeng's mansion, were sitting on their knees under the dry willows outside the Donghua Gate to nibble on cooking cakes, waiting for the handymen in the palace to send those golden silk nan food boxes and Pengzhou white porcelain plates out, but they saw that Ma Yun galloping over.

"Say hello to Mrs. Yao! Mrs. Chen just said at the banquet that the lady saved her life, and asked the queen mother to ask the lady to go in now, and she wants to reward you in person. ”

Mrs. Chen is the nurse of the eldest princess of Shu, and on the day of the Xiyuan Yaji, she was in front of the palace of the king of the horses, and Yao Huan used the Heimlik first aid method to get out the jujube stuck in her throat.

Yao Huan was a little surprised.

She originally thought that for this Mrs. Chen, she went to scold the mountain gate violently but was almost choked to death by a date, which was a matter of collapse and loss, and Mrs. Chen and Wang Yuma just acted as if it had never happened. I don't want Mrs. Chen to mention it to the Queen Mother at her birthday banquet.

This old lady is really happy and has a spicy temperament for a lifetime.

Yao Huan didn't mutter, he was already nervous.

She just wants to make a name for herself as a supplier and delivery to the royal family, and in the future, not only will the snack business in the shop be more popular, but she can also shout confidently when she pushes the food cart to set up a stall.

Now that she was suddenly announced to the palace to receive the reward, she did have some stage fright.

Advancing to Zeng Mansion once in a few months, he almost died.

A few days before the Qinglou, I saw that others were dead.

Yao Huan already has some psychological shadows of unfamiliar places. Even though he was able to eat and drink after turning the danger into a disaster at that time, after thinking about it, it was still the most peaceful one-third of an acre of land between his aunt's house and Dongshuimen.

Ma Yun, the little waiter, could not care so much, dragging this little lady who had handed over shit luck in his opinion, entered the Donghua Gate, and then turned towards the royal courtyard in the north.

The prince of the Great Song Dynasty, after the crown ceremony, is regarded as an adult prince, and must go out of the cabinet and live in a mansion outside the palace by the official family.

Zhao Ji, the king of Suining, is only fourteen years old this year, and he is not as weak as the crown, but because of an undignified scandal in the palace half a year ago, although he had to protect the queen mother and cover it, Concubine Zhu still pleaded with the official Zhao Xu, and stepped up her urging to complete the Suining County Palace, which is located outside the palace, as soon as possible, so that this half-brother Zhao Ji will perform a grand ceremony before the Double Ninth Festival at the latest.

Therefore, today's birthday banquet for Mrs. Chen, coming to the Queen Mother in person, of course, has the meaning of paying tribute to the loyal servants left by the imperial aunt, and it can be seen as a pomp and circumstance for the king of Suining County to do a practice.

Yao Huan recovered from a severe cold, and he was busy early in the morning, and he only gnawed half of the cooking cake just now, and now he ran almost two miles in the huge palace before he arrived in the royal courtyard of Suining County in the prince's residential area.

Liang Shicheng was already waiting under the porch, replaced his assistant Ma Yun with a smile, and led Yao Huan to walk away, while saying in a considerate tone: "Yao Niangzi must be the first time to return to the palace, right?" Don't be afraid of embarrassment, Xiang Xiangxiang is very angry. Concubine Zhu, heh, Concubine Zhu is also very good at treating the people in the palace. ”

Yao Huan's mind was dizzy, and he tried to receive Liang Shicheng's information, and faintly heard the melodious sound of silk and bamboo music, followed Liang Shicheng a few times, and then turned outside the door of the flower hall where the banquet was held.

"The queen mother, the concubine, the king of the county, the Yao family has arrived."

The musician stopped playing, and a female voice that was quite neutral but not sharp and majestic sounded: "Let the child in." ”

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On the main seat of the wide black sandalwood square dining table, the Queen Mother Xiang had a faint but kind smile on the corner of her mouth, staring at Yao Huan who was standing at the door.

Empress Dowager Xiang is forty-nine years old this year, and her eyebrows are like a picture of Guanyin. She was dressed today in an indigo quilted shirt with large sleeves, her frost-colored slightly dyed hair in a bun that was not too high, and she only held a red gold hairpin with no agate or tassel at the top, and a lake bead mask between her temples and cheekbones.

On her left, she sits Mrs. Chen, the nurse of the eldest princess of Shu, and on her right sits the biological mother of today's son Zhao Xu, Concubine Zhu.

The Great Song Dynasty established the country, Emperor Taizu released his military power with a cup of wine, and another tacit agreement with his comrades-in-arms was to try his best to arrange the daughters and granddaughters of these generals to become the daughters-in-law of the children and grandchildren of the old Zhao family. For example, Cao Shi, the queen of Song Renzong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is the granddaughter of Cao Bin, the founding general. Song Yingzong's empress Gao, her father was also a military minister.

In the Divine Sect, the rules gradually faded. Empress Xiang of Shenzong, now Empress Dowager Xiang, and Xiang Minzhong, the father's generation, are out-and-out scholars who have entered the imperial examination.

When the Empress Dowager Xiang was the queen of Shenzong, she gave birth to a prince Zhao Shen, but unfortunately this child did not get rid of the bad luck of the princes of the Northern Song Dynasty who "was easy to be born and difficult to survive", and died young.

Concubine Zhu was fortunate to be a royal attendant back then, and her combat effectiveness and survival rate of offspring were quite good. In addition to today's son Zhao Xu, she also gave birth to the prince Zhao Yi and a princess, and they are still alive and well.

Mrs. Chen, the old lady, was dazed when she was saved by Yao Huan that day, and although she woke up and was served by the stewards and maids in Wang Xu's mansion as ancestors for most of the day, she was still angry. After returning to the palace, when Zhao Ji went to see her again, he mentioned Yao Huan, the little lady of the food shop, and Mrs. Chen fell in love.

The old lady has always regarded herself as a model of morality - after all, she often goes to the gate of Wang Xu's mansion to make trouble with such a benevolent, righteous, courteous, and wise faith.

How can a moral model fail to repay kindness?

Moreover, after thinking about it carefully, Mrs. Chen had an extra layer of thought, and she wanted to borrow the power of the Queen Mother Xiang more and more, and use this Yao family lady to put gold on Zhao Ji's face.

At this moment, relying on this kind of small family banquet and not using the ritual of separating the food table from a long distance, Mrs. Chen leaned over slightly, then approached the Queen Mother, and said softly: "The Queen Mother, it is this child who saved the old body's life." ”

Xiang nodded to the Queen Mother and said to Yao Huan: "Child, standing and doing something, I have set a seat for you." ”

Immediately, a palace maid wearing a crimson shirt and an apricot-colored skirt came up, led Yao Huan to the bottom of the dining table, and sat down on an official hat chair with yellow pear.

Even without Mrs. Chen's turmoil, Empress Dowager Xiang had already learned about the little lady in front of her through the marriage of the eldest grandson of Zengfu.

The situation outside the court, the heated discussions in the city, and even the movement of the frontier have always been the daily concerns of the harem master.

The successive empress dowagers of the Great Song Dynasty have been much gentler than those women of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, even if the Empress Dowager Liu E and Liu were strong, they did not develop their own power and conscientiously guarded the country for the Zhao family for a while.

However, after all, the queen mothers are still the central figures in the top-level political world, how can they really be like water, recuperate in their old age, and sit in the deep palace to tease flowers and birds?