"The master of the Zizhen Palace is a person who understands, so the palace won't bother much." The queen mother motioned to the personal palace maid Bang Bi, and handed a yellowed rice paper to the hand of the Zizhen Palace Master, "This palace has heard that the pill of refining the True Palace is not good, please see if this recipe can be refined into an elixir." ”

"Take a look at the poor road." The Zizhen Palace Master looked at the more than twenty kinds of materials densely recorded on the recipe and their dosage, as well as the time of addition, etc., and only after about a cup of tea did he speak: "Although the poor Dao is inferior to the master and ancestor in alchemy, he also has some experience, the queen's recipe is very peculiar, and the poor Dao needs to be carefully studied before he can give an exact answer." I hope that the queen will forgive her sins. ”

"It's okay, I don't know how many days the Zizhen Palace will study? Whether the corresponding medicinal materials are needed, the palace looks at some of the materials that seem to be very valuable. ”

"If the queen mother only argues the formula, then three days is enough, but if you want to refine it into a pill, it will take more than a month." The Purple True Palace Master said, "In addition, the Refining True Palace has been rewarded by the royal family for many years, so it should still be possible to allocate two to three points of the Dan Fang according to this. ”

"That's fine, then the palace is waiting for the good news of the Zizhen Palace Master. If the materials are insufficient, the master of the Zizhen Palace can hand over the sign to the Duke of Su Yi, and the Prince of Su Yi will deal with the matter. "Queen Zheng Yuehua's father is this generation of Su Yi Gong, and Su Yi Gong's son is the queen's eldest brother.

"Poor Dao understands."

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This evening.

After His Majesty had dinner with the queen, he was fortunate to Chi Zhaoyi. At this time, the queen had already lost her hairpin, sitting in front of the dresser with a peony pattern carved from rosewood, closing her eyes and letting Bang Bi comb her long hair that was scattered.

"Niangniang, that recipe was finally found by the grandfather, so let the Zizhen Palace Master take it away, will there be any problems?" Bang Bi carefully combed the queen's hair.

Bang Bi is a personal maid who has followed the queen since she was a child, she has always been loyal, and she does things very properly, so these palace people in Fengzao Palace can also say a few words in front of the queen.

According to my father, this recipe originally came from a Taoist temple in the deep mountains in the south, if it weren't for the barren Taoist temple and the collapse of the statue, the iron box in the idol would not have fallen out, and this recipe was stored in the iron box. My father also ordered someone to see it in private, and although the drugs used were peculiar, they were all non-toxic and did not conflict with each other. ”

"It sounds really amazing, it must be God's compassion for the mother, so that Fang Zi can see the light of day again." Bang Bi has been serving Zheng Yuehua for ten years, and it is right to pick up what she likes to hear.

"Whether God is sympathetic or not, it depends on whether the elixir can be refined, if it weren't for the belly of this palace, it wouldn't have made my father worry about this matter." As she spoke, the queen unconsciously put her right hand on her stomach.

In the eighteenth year of Yuande, when the current saint was still the prince, Zheng Yuehua was canonized as the crown princess and lived in the East Palace. It is now the second year of Ningkang, and in these six years, Zheng Yuehua has only given birth to one princess, that is, Princess Leyang, who is now four years old.

In fact, in the twenty-first year of Yuande, Zheng Yuehua was pregnant with a prince, but because of fright, the prince was born prematurely at eight months, because he was born in less than a month, the little prince was weak and weak, and died before the full moon. And the prince who is less than one year old in Daqian will not be counted in the tooth order after his death. So now there is only one princess in the palace.

That premature birth greatly damaged Zheng Yuehua's body, although the imperial doctors said that the queen's health was fine every time, but when she was born prematurely, she suddenly heard the imperial doctors say that the chances of her having children in the future are extremely small. And she really hasn't conceived a child in the past three years, so the heir has become Zheng Yuehua's most worrying problem.

After all, a childless queen can't sit in the back seat.

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Because the eldest princess's sacrifice has only ended, although it is almost the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, the queen decreed that the Mid-Autumn Festival in the palace this year should be handled simply, but the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that has lasted for many years is still held as usual.

Early in the morning, all the concubines gathered in the queen's Fengzao Palace.

"This year's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is extraordinary, this is the first time after His Majesty's accession to the throne to invite the ministers in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in order to show that the monarch and the ministers are happy and the people are united. In the past, there were only three places for the night banquet, but today the exception has been increased to five, I wonder which sister is willing to perform in the Mid-Autumn Festival? After speaking, the queen glanced at the two columns of concubines sitting below.

"Queen Mother, why don't you let the new sisters in the palace perform? I've heard that several of my sisters haven't seen Your Majesty yet. Chi Zhaoyi's words were a little against her will.

She herself really wanted to be in the limelight at the night banquet, but she was born in a general, she couldn't sing and dance, but she could have a few routines with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, and Chi Zhaoyi herself felt that it was not appropriate to fiddle with weapons at the night banquet, so she simply gave up the thoughts of other old people.

"Chi Zhaoyi's idea is good, now except for Jian Jieyu, Qin Meiren and Jiang Baolin, the others have not been blessed by the saint, so it is better to choose five from the six of you."

The queen slapped the board directly, but Qin Sisi was a little dissatisfied, she also wanted to make a splash at the night banquet and show her unparalleled piano skills, but now she is only a four-grade beauty, and she really doesn't have to pick and choose in front of the queen.

Feng Cainu stood up and saluted, "Back to the queen's mother, the concubine is stupid, she can only copy and write, can the concubine withdraw, so that the five sisters don't have to fight." ”

This trick successfully aroused the queen's favor, and although Feng Cainu did not sleep in the palace for a few months, she was not idle, and from time to time she sent some gadgets embroidered by herself to the queen, or copied scriptures.

Because she often brushes her face in front of the queen, the queen also has a lot of support for Feng Cainu, otherwise she is a concubine with a low-class position and no bedtime, and the Shanggong Bureau may start to deduct her share at some point.

In the palace, there is this kind of atmosphere of praising the high and stepping on the low, and no one can change it, because human nature is like this.

"Then it's decided, sisters, you should prepare well, and look forward to your performance at the night banquet. If you can make Longyan happy, this palace will definitely be rewarded. ”

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Lingxi has never worried about these things, she has also learned dance, and she has been praised by the female master for being very talented, but she is not very interested in dance itself, so she has not studied too much.

According to Nanxing's analysis, dancing is the easiest place to shine, as long as the performance form is novel, it will definitely be a blockbuster, and it is very likely to be favored by His Majesty at that time.

But Nanxing didn't know anything about choreography, and she originally studied with the female master who taught Lingxi for a few days, but the female master's evaluation of her was: It always looks like she is boxing, and there is no softness that dance should have.

In today's situation, there must be no way to make too many performances in the environment of the night banquet, so he can only start from the dance itself, and Nanxing can only keep calling the little black cat in his mind to see if there is a way for it.

After a long time, when Nanxing was about to give up, he finally got a response from the black cat, "What's the matter with calling me?" To cut a long story short, it's energy-consuming. ”