The two walked side by side, quietly walking towards the palace, Xinyue felt a little tired, and reached out to help Fei'er, but was held by Rong Ying's free hand, "If you are tired, help me"

Xinyue looked at Lian'er, who was already asleep, and then looked at Rong Ying's posture, if he insisted, he would have been holding Lian'er with one hand and holding himself with one hand, so Xinyue reached out and held Rong Ying's arm, Rong Ying also withdrew his hand and supported Lian'er's waist.

There weren't so many words along the way, and the two of them walked so calmly.

Occasionally, a few ordinary words will be spoken.

"Is there your favorite dish at today's banquet?" Rong Ying suddenly asked.

Xinyue shook her head, "That white jade pill is not bad." ”

"This palace is up and down, and it is also the Wang Mama in your palace, and the food she cooks meets your appetite."

"There are only a few people in the palace now, and when there are more people in the future, you will eat it all over again, and she will be happy when you come to evaluate Mama Wang's craftsmanship." Xinyue tucked the corner of Lian'er's clothes, Rong Ying looked at Xinyue's hand, Xinyue understood what he meant, and she tucked his collar a little helplessly.

"I think it's good to be like this now" The smile in Rong Ying's eyes couldn't be hidden, since he seemed to have figured out something, he began to be more patient, and sure enough, when he began to take his time with Xinyue, Xinyue also began to talk to himself slowly.

Xinyue glanced at Rong Ying with slanted eyes and smiled, "Then what do you mean, that is, there is no draft in the palace?" But Chai Bijun and I have already started to prepare. ”

"It would be nice to have a few female cooks who can cook." Rong Ying knew that Xinyue would joke with him again, so she returned a joke.

"Can't those chefs in the Imperial Diet? Do you have to have a female cook? Rong Ying found that Xinyue's steps were a little brisk, and the corners of his mouth also raised, "Then let Mama Wang be the imperial chef in my palace, okay." ”

"You think beautifully, now Mama Wang, who is also old, I want to let her out of the palace, it seems that she also wants to go out of the palace."

"Your grandmother, taking care of you and protecting you, seeing me staring at me like a black-eyed chicken, she is still willing to leave you?"

"She's not going to let me see her grow old." Xinyue was a little annoyed when she walked, and after looking around, she said to Fei'er, "Go and pass it on, I'm a little uncomfortable and don't want to go." ”

"Are you feeling unwell?" Rong Ying looked at Xinyue's face again, and sure enough, she saw fine sweat on her forehead, and her lips were a little white.

Xinyue nodded, "Lian'er bumped into me just now, and I was a little cold soaked here." ”

At this time, there was still some distance from Kun Palace, and after the two found a gazebo and sat down, Lian'er woke up and stretched out her hand to Xinyue to let her hold herself, Xinyue wanted to reach out, but Lian'er was still held by Rong Ying, "Don't bother your mother, she is not feeling well." ”

"The Queen Mother... Are you feeling unwell? With that, Lian'er got down from Rong Ying's lap and reached out to touch Xinyue's forehead, "Queen Mother, you don't have a fever either." ”

"Well, the queen mother is fine, why don't you sleep, this little face is still red."

"The queen mother, the father may not have hugged anyone, and the son is in his arms, and he is uncomfortable to death." Saying that, Lian'er was bold and pushed Rong Ying.

Rong Ying raised her eyebrows and wanted to speak, but was stopped by a look from Xinyue, "Okay, I'll let Aunt Fei go and pass it on, you will sit with your mother and go back in a while." ”

Lian'er nodded, "En"

As she spoke, Lian'er lay on Xinyue's lap, and her eyes couldn't be opened.

"Niangniang, you're here, your face is not very good, but do you want to pass on the imperial doctor?" Fei'er led the way and said to the crescent.

Xinyue handed Lian'er to Fei'er and shook her head, "No need, I got up early in the morning, and I can sleep for a while when I return to the palace." ”

"Aren't you leaving?" Xinyue sat on the throne and watched Rong Ying still sit in her original position.

Rong Ying shook her head: "I still have something to do in the previous dynasty." ”

"Okay, let's go" The new moon couldn't help but glance back at Rong Ying, who was still sitting in the same position.

Rong Ying looked at the new moon that turned back and smiled, it seems that the new moon is not completely unaware. Rong Ying smiled and couldn't help but sigh: Xinyue's eyes are really beautiful.

On the third day of March in spring, it is the Daughter's Day of the Great Sage, and the new moon set up a banquet to invite the show girls who have passed the previous drafts, but Chai Bijun and Mercy rarely have the same opinion, and they did not come, which was unexpected by the new moon, and I couldn't help but have a headache to support my forehead, thinking about the two of them, it was really just a little daughter's mind to look at it this way.

"Mother, do you have a headache?" Xi'er came in from outside and saw that Xinyue was holding her forehead.

"Yes, a little. Have all the people arrived? Crescent Moon removed the hairpin that was very tight on Strangle's head and set it aside.

"Yes, the girls have already arrived, and they are waiting outside to meet the mother."

Crescent Moon nodded "Let's go"

"Niangniang, today is the first time that several show girls have seen you, is it appropriate for you to dress like this?" Xi'er looked at the spring clothes on Xinyue's body, and remembered that she wore this dress a few times as if she had worn it last spring.

Crescent Moon stretched out her sleeves, turned around in front of the mirror, and said, "This is a fine yarn and embroidery, but is there anything wrong?" ”

"The slave maid just thinks that these show girls must be happy to enter the palace, and they can see the wealth of the heavenly family, and the mother, as the head of the harem, naturally wants..."

"I'm not forty or fifty years old, what do I do with that old-fashioned dress in advance. Let's go, it's too late if you don't go. With that, Xinyue didn't wait for Xi'er and went straight forward.

There were many voices of women talking in the hall, but when they heard someone outside the door, "Niang Niang has arrived", it immediately quieted down.

Xinyue stretched out her hand, straightened out her lilac robe, and walked into the side hall where the banquet was held.

Empress Xianchai seems to be a person who likes to hold banquets very much, and the entire Kun Palace is terrifying, but she used ingenuity to change several halls outside into various places where banquets can be held according to their advantages.

And the place where the crescent moon is set up today, behind the Kun Palace, there is a garden here, spring is the season when the flowers are in full bloom, there is a cloister outside the hall, there are flower branches under the corridor to probe in, sit under the corridor to drink and feast and enjoy the flowers, it is really extraordinarily gorgeous and suitable for the scene.

The women in this hall make the eyes of the crescent moon shine brightly, and all kinds of women, like a hundred flowers in spring, have their own merits, but they are gathered together, which makes people a little dazzled.

Xinyue sat on the main seat, and as soon as she sat down, everyone began to greet Xinyue, first they made a big salute together, and then Xi'er took the post with the names of these show girls, and when she first read it, it really had a bit of the meaning of the draft in front of the palace.

"The second daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, Li Xiu'er" The first few are either mediocre in appearance, or the family background is not so good, although Xinyue looked at it carefully, but she understood Rong Ying, and thought that she would never see these women again, but when she read the daughter of the Zhenguo Gong's family, Xinyue gave Xi'er a look, and Xi'er stopped the sound of reading the name.

Li Xiu'er stepped forward and asked Xinyue to say goodbye, "The little girl has seen Niangniang." ”

"How old are you?" Xinyue saw that Li Xiu'er had a sweet appearance, with a little caution and caution in her eyebrows and eyes, but she didn't look like a person from the Zhenguo family who went out without thinking at all.

"If you go back to your mother, you'll be sixteen this year." Li Xiuer saluted.

Xinyue nodded, "Yes, it's a good age, and it's also very close to the eyes of the palace, Xi'er, send two velvet flowers to her"

"Yes" said that, the little palace maid behind Xi'er immediately handed over the things that Xinyue had prepared.

"This velvet flower, the meaning of Ronghua, I want to come, this palace will see this girl in the future." As she spoke, Crescent glanced at the faces of all the show girls present and smiled.

Xi'er continued to chant the name "Mu Wangfu County Lord Mu Shi, Mu Wanwan"

"The county lord of the Mu family?" Xinyue was the first time she saw someone from Mu Wangfu, and sent her daughter to choose a concubine.

Different from the prince with the same surname as the Great Sage, some generals who made great contributions in the founding of the country will be given a different surname Wan, such as the Chai prince of the Chai family.

And the Chai family is different from the Mu family, the central Yunnan region where the Mu family is located, there was originally a place where the Mu family has been ruled for generations, and later because Queen Zhang wanted to take advantage of the road to fight the enemy army in central Yunnan, and by the way recruited the king of Mu at that time, so central Yunnan has become the central Yunnan region of the current great sage, and this place has been governed by the people of the Mu family for generations.

And this place happens to be the southern border of the Great Sage, so the prince Mu of the past dynasties, in addition to managing his own fiefdom, also has to govern the southern border, and he is a prince with great power and military strength.

But fortunately, the Mu family has been very peaceful and self-respecting for generations, and has not supported the army and respected themselves, but has become more and more friendly with the court.

For generations, it was the royal family who married the princess, for example, Jue'er, the only daughter of Queen Chai, married Mu Feng, the son of King Mu, a year ago. And Mu Feng's mother is Princess Yini, the younger sister of the first emperor.

And the matter of the county lord of the Mu family coming to the draft as a concubine is the first time since this Mu Wanwan.

"Say hello to the mother" Mu Wanwan is very tall, slender, in her eyes, there are some exotic postures, and the shallow amber color in her pupils makes her even more beautiful, Xinyue looked a little distracted for a while, such a background, with such a beautiful woman, this should be the person who can be worthy of Rong Ying, herself, including Chai Bijun, does not seem to be that piece of material.

"Lord Mu is really worthy of his name, the beauty is smacking, get up" Xinyue quickly calmed down and smiled at Lord Mu, "I don't know if the eldest princess and Princess Jue'er are okay in the palace?" ”

"When the little girl came, the sister-in-law also asked the little girl to ask the little girl to ask Niang Niang'an, and also asked the little girl to bring a lot of Yunnan characteristics, as for the little girl's mother, she has not prepared a few clothes for the mother, I don't know if the mother can receive it." Lord Mu advanced and retreated in a measured manner, and behaved generously.

I heard that the mother of the eldest princess of Yini was the most favored concubine at that time, and her daughter was also doted on by the first emperor for many years, and her temperament was arrogant. However, the eldest princess Yini insisted, and the first emperor was reluctant to disobey the will of this pearl in his palm, so he agreed to this marriage, and the two got married for a hundred years and gave birth to two sons and a daughter.

Princess Jue'er, who is also His Majesty's father, and the pearl of Queen Chai, and Princess Yini, who is both mother-in-law and aunt and nephew, have the same experience, so they don't need to go out of their way to inquire, and they all know that the two get along very well.

"The clothes that my aunt made for the palace, at this time it is the one that the palace wears in the robe, after my aunt married far away, the two of us have always had to see each other, but I didn't expect my aunt to be able to guess the size of the palace, and the dress made for the palace is really just right." As she spoke, the crescent moon spread her sleeves to reveal the corners of her skirt.

"It's good if the mother likes it" Lord Mu is still neither humble nor arrogant, and his smile is also very intimate.

"I'm tired after standing for a long time, so sit down."

After the introduction of the young lady of the dignitary's family, some women were also selected in the private sector for this draft, but Rong Ying ordered not to be too excited, so only a few innocent women sent by the state capitals were selected.

Although it was carefully selected by the state capitals, compared with the few noble women sitting in front, it was obviously a big difference, only one or two, which was comparable.

"Outside the west of Huzhou City, Meng Yanqing, the daughter of Meng Jia"

After Xi Er finished reading, she stepped forward to a woman wearing a lilac robe, Xinyue looked down at the color of her outer robe, and then looked at Meng Yanqing's body, and couldn't help but touch the scar on her forehead with some unconfidence.

"Little girl Meng Yanqing, I've seen Niangniang" Meng Yanqing also discovered this, and saluted the new moon with some trepidation.

Xinyue nodded, "Get up, this is a good look, and you can hide it with your head down." ”

"Niang Niang forgive sins" Although Xinyue said this, Meng Yanqing's head was still lowered, and she was very frightened.

Xinyue's smile was still the same, "Xi'er, there is a handkerchief embroidered with asters in this palace, and it is very appropriate to give it to this Meng girl at this time." ”

"Yes" said Xi'er, and immediately ordered someone to go to the apse to fetch it.

Seeing that the few noble girls in the front row who knew the meaning of this flower, Xinyue was still secretly smiling and frowning, not knowing if it was a good thing to beat a woman who had just entered the palace like this.

However, from the first time she saw Meng Yanqing, she felt that there was a restless feeling in her eyes, and the last time she had such a strong feeling was when she had Chai Bijun.

"Xie Niangniang" aster flower, it is not difficult to see from the name, this is a kind of small purple flower standing in the garden, although inconspicuous, but because of the group of birth, with ambition, so it can also win the owner of the garden to take a look, but after all, it is a cluster of small flowers, it is difficult to become a climate, so this flower also has the meaning of "plaything".

However, Meng Yanqing was born in the people, so he shouldn't know what this means, Xinyue looked at the handkerchief handed to Meng Yanqing, and couldn't help but say, "In the courtyard where the palace lived in the past, there was this cluster of such flowers. This palace sent you this veil, and I also hope that you can also win the love of His Majesty. ”