Wei Xiyue was not idle for a moment, she had already found a place to open a store in the capital and bought it.

Thanks to Huo Lingxiao for giving 10,000 taels of silver, the land in this capital is expensive, so it cost 9,000 taels of silver to buy a small place.

Looking at the few thousand taels of silver, it seems that he can only tighten his belt to live by the decoration of the store.

Seeing that the light in Wei Xiyue's room was still on late at night, Liu knocked on the door and asked, "Xiyue?" ”

"Come in, mother." Wei Xiyue put away the silver.

"It's so late, and the heavier ones don't put on any clothes, just sit here, what if you get a cold?" Liu said.

"It's okay, I'm in good health, I'm not so delicate." Wei Xiyue rubbed her little hands, and only when she was a little warm did she dare to hold Liu's hand.

"Why are you bothered?"

Liu picked up the drawings on the table, "Xiyue, this is what you want to open a store?" I still have some savings there, so I'll give them all to you. ”

"No, I have money here, don't worry about it, just wait to be the little boss." Wei Xiyue looked at the Liu family with a smile.

The Liu family insisted on taking out their savings to support Wei Xiyue to open a store, and Wei Xiyue could only verbally promise Liu's kindness, but refused to accept the money.

Soon ushered in the birthday of Huo Lingxiao's biological mother, the imperial concubine, it stands to reason that a person who has died does not have to hold a birthday banquet for her every year, but Emperor Nanshao is a person who values love and righteousness, even if the imperial concubine has been dead for many years, he will still give her a banquet according to the rules of the palace.

"Xiao Hei, how to give gifts for this imperial concubine's birthday banquet?" Wei Xiyue asked as she bit her chopsticks.

"I don't know." The Shadow bowed his head.

"Why don't you know anything, you've been by Huo Lingxiao's side for so many years in vain." Wei Xiyue muttered.

The shadow pinched a cold sweat in his heart, every year at the birthday banquet of the imperial concubine Huo Lingxiao just appeared casually, taking a formality, he himself did not like Emperor Nan Shao to hold a birthday banquet for his mother and concubine with great fanfare.

"The third prince hates birthday banquets very much, and thinks that the spirit of the imperial concubine Niangniang in the sky has been disturbed by others." The Shadow replied truthfully.

"It doesn't make sense to give this gift or not, but it's not okay to go empty-handed." Wei Xiyue felt a headache, and she wanted to say hello to Huo Lingxiao, if she couldn't be there.

Since it was the birthday of the imperial concubine, everyone who participated in this banquet could only wear white or black clothes, and could not have any bright colors, otherwise they would commit a taboo.

Wei Feiyue was locked up by Mrs. Wei for a long time, and she was finally able to enter the palace with this birthday banquet, and she was able to see Huo Zeyu, and she didn't know how Huo Zeyu recovered.

"Miss will be able to enter the palace tomorrow, and you can finally meet the four princes." Xiao Ju had other intentions in his words, and carefully observed Wei Feiyue's expression and demeanor.

Wei Feiyue fiddled with the cold plum in this vase, held scissors in her hand, and then pruned the branches of the plum blossoms.

"Brother Zeyu's injury doesn't know how much healed, I'm afraid that this birthday banquet, Concubine Yao will let him stay in bed to recuperate." Wei Feiyue had no waves in her eyes, even if she couldn't see Huo Zeyu, he could still secretly meet the prince, this was his real purpose.

Wei Feiyue is not an elm head, thinking of the previous things, she no longer reuses Xiaoju and puts it aside to dry.

"Yu Duo, you take this bottle of cold plum, raise it with the morning dew just picked this morning, and send it to the old lady." Wei Feiyue clapped her hands.

Yu Duo stepped forward to take Hanmei away, she is Wei Feiyue's newly cultivated confidant, there are no relatives in the family, her father and mother both died, Wei Feiyue was rescued by a group of officers and soldiers, she was kind to her, and she was specially given the name Yu Duo, and her identity and background were erased cleanly.

Xiao Ju stepped forward again and said flatteringly: "Miss, the slave maid heard about ......"

Before Xiao Ju finished speaking, she was interrupted by Wei Feiyue, "Okay, there is a lack of snow sweepers in the courtyard recently, you happen to be idle, so let's go." ”

Wei Feiyue directly asked her to stay in the outer courtyard and not let her enter the inner room, Xiao Ju wondered if Wei Feiyue had found something.

On the day of the imperial concubine's birthday banquet, Wei Xiyue and Wei Qingxue entered the palace in white, and sure enough, the ladies around them who were dressed up on weekdays were all dressed in plain clothes.

The emperor personally built a huge palace for the imperial concubine, and every birthday banquet was carried out in this palace, and as soon as you entered the palace, you saw dozens of pear blossoms in the store, and the fragrance of the flowers was overflowing.

The carved beams and paintings in the hall, there are exquisite Dunhuang murals, the production of tables and chairs all have a strong Western style, the ribbons are hung high everywhere, the crystal ball that will shine for a moment is also hung in the middle of the hall, and the pear blossoms that are in full bloom are engraved on the sphere.

There are some strange totems printed on the tablecloth, which are the totems used to be used by the royal princesses of Xuanyuan Kingdom in the past, and the birth of each princess will make the wizard specially draw a totem, which is a totem symbolizing status.

Emperor Nanshao was already sitting on the dragon chair at the highest point of the main hall, at this time he was wearing a black Nine Dragons Golden Python robe, wearing an amethyst hair crown, and he actually had a feeling of a young man, but he had already been infected with a calm and old imperial atmosphere after many years in politics.

Everyone entered the hall to greet Emperor Nanshao and the lost imperial concubine, and no one dared to question the rules of asking for peace to a dead person.

Wei Xiyue sat down, and with sharp eyes, she found that the dragon chair was actually wrapped with a pattern of pear blossoms, and saw that the imperial concubine had passed away for many years, but the weight in the heart of Emperor Nanshao had not diminished.

Huo Lingxiao arrived belatedly and sat on the right side of Emperor Nanshao, and the Empress and Concubine Yao sat on the left in turn.

"Father, how could you not know that the mother concubine hates the most noisy occasions?" Huo Lingxiao asked.

This sentence he asks every year, and he asks that Emperor Nanshao is tired of it.

Huo Lingxiao's voice was extremely indifferent and resolute, with an aura of rejection thousands of miles away, his facial features were like knives, his expression was resolute and indifferent, and his inperceptible eyes glanced at everyone sitting down, making people dare not look at him.

He only had to sit there, and the cold mist on his body was even more terrifying, enough to make people fearful.

"How could I not know?" Emperor Nanshao is just another way to mourn the imperial concubine.

At the beginning of the banquet, the lyrics played by the moon poem were all the favorite of the imperial concubine during her lifetime.

Ladies who have attended several times naturally know that today's birthday banquet. Completely different from other birthday banquets, before Emperor Nanshao's order, everyone was more cautious in their words and deeds.

Concubine Yao raised her wine glass to Emperor Nanshao, and said softly: "The emperor's affection for his sister can be seen in the world, the sun and the moon shine together, and my sister will be happy under Jiuquan." ”

When Yao Guifei was still the imperial concubine's personal maid, she was often commensurate with her sisters, and the imperial concubine took care of Yao Guifei very much at that time, and always remembered that Yao Guifei had reached the age of trial marriage and marriage, and found a good son to marry her.

Na Cheng wants to return Yao Guifei's ambition is so big, he wants to climb the dragon couch with the help of the imperial concubine.

Then Yao Guifei proposed a competition, "My sister loved to play chess the most during her lifetime, and she has the title of Nanshao's first chess god, why don't we put up a chess game today, so that my sister can see how the chess skills of Nanshao's descendants are?" ”

Wei Feiyue was the first to echo, "The courtiers think it's good, it seems that there hasn't been such a game in the palace for a long time." ”

intended to curry favor with Concubine Yao, and also knew that Wei Xiyue was not good at chess, so he wanted to take the opportunity to slap Wei Xiyue in the face.

Emperor Nan Shao felt that this attention was very good, "Okay, then follow the meaning of Concubine Yao, set up a chess game, and the winner can get a set of blue crystal eight treasures." ”

The eunuch took out the colored head, and as soon as the white cloth was lifted, the blue crystal eight treasures shone in the natural light, emitting a burst of dazzling light.

Wei Feiyue bribed the palace maid to arrange herself and Wei Xiyue together, and the prince and Huo Lingxiao were harmonious on the surface, and there was a lot of edge in their words.

Huo Lingxiao finally shifted his gaze to Wei Xiyue's body, asking him to see if this time would give him another unexpected surprise.

Wei Xiyue, the little wild cat, became more and more pleasing to the eye the more she looked at it, and she was so cute when she fried her hair.

The shadow who followed behind Wei Xiyue disguised as a woman would be eager to crash into the wall if she knew Huo Lingxiao's thoughts.

The shadow was about to move, and was being looked at by Huo Lingxiao, and after changing into women's clothes, he really couldn't recognize it, it felt like it was quite good-looking, waiting for the birthday banquet to end, and he would try it on Qingying again.

Qingying, who was guarding outside the main hall, sneezed coldly, completely unaware that he had been remembered by Huo Lingxiao, and thought that it was the cold wind blowing outside.

As Wei Feiyue expected, Wei Feiyue and Wei Xiyue were assigned to the same game of chess, and Wei Qingxue was worried about Wei Xiyue's competition project.

The two sat down on either side of the chessboard, and the maid served black and white chess pieces.

Wei Feiyue's words provoked Wei Xiyue, "Big sister, I won't let you anymore this time." ”

Wei Feiyue smiled like a flower, as if she had already won the game, but she didn't know that in Wei Xiyue's eyes, she was like a clown who jumped off the beam, she suffered a loss in playing chess in her previous life, and Wei Xiyue was also struggling to hone her chess skills, and everyone in the hall would not be her opponent.

"The second sister has to take a closer look at the next child, there is no regret medicine in the world, who can laugh until the end and don't know!" Wei Xiyue picked up a chess piece with her right hand and put it on the chessboard.

The two of them were in full swing, the battle was evenly matched, only Wei Xiyue and Wei Feiyue were left in the hall, and the others had already decided the winner.

Wei Xiyue was not in a hurry to win, so she kept teasing Wei Feiyue.

Fine beads of sweat were bubbling on her forehead, Wei Feiyue played every move very hard, and glared at Wei Xiyue angrily, "I didn't expect my sister's chess skills to be so good, it's a blessing to hide my sister!" ”

"Well, that's true, so let's end it!" Wei Xiyue happily left a son.

The whole indifferent chess game was instantly connected and became a battlefield, and the black chess pieces were like millions of people riding towards the mud splitting emperor, and all the walls of the white chess pieces were broken through and strangled one by one.

Wei Xiyue counterattacked, and in the end she had a slight advantage, which can be said to be a beautiful win.

Nan Shaohuang looked at the chess game and thought that Wei Xiyue's chess skills were really wonderful, and finally gave the first place directly to Wei Xiyue.

Wei Xiyue took the blue crystal eight treasures in the eunuch's hand, and a golden light appeared in her eyes, this is all money spent in vain, just to fill the decoration fee that she lacks.

Emperor Dayue of Nanshao also rewarded Wei Xiyue with some gold, silver and jewelry as a reward.

Wei Feiyue was dissatisfied, but due to the temporary patience of Emperor Nanshao.