Empress Dowager Guo nodded slightly, but did not answer his words. At this time, the music in the main hall sounded, and a pair of dancing girls waved their water sleeves and danced into the main hall from the door.

It turned out that in order to make the atmosphere of the Qixi family banquet better, some singing and dancing performances were arranged in advance. Empress Dowager Guo showed a plain and kind smile on her face, and she didn't ask any more questions, but her eyes looked at the center of the hall, as if she had already begun to enjoy the performance. But she didn't ask Li Yi to return to her seat, so Li Yi stood in the hall like this.

If it were someone else, it would be a little embarrassing to stand abruptly like this, but Li Yi didn't seem to notice it at all, poking it there like a piece of wood, causing everyone to secretly hide their mouths and laugh in private, and they all talked about this like an "idiot".

At this moment, the music turned, and the dancers flashed to the side, only to see two more orchids dancing in with a huge scroll in their hands. When they turned to the center of the main hall, they suddenly shook the scroll, and then everyone saw that on the scroll was a huge landscape painting.

One of the orchids suddenly lifted a handful of something out of his hand and scattered it like light smoke on the scroll, and then everyone saw a huge waterfall appear on the scroll. At the same time, another orchid picked up a very short bamboo flute, and it was amazing to blow the sound of the water of the waterfall and the rustle of the wind through the trees.

It turned out to be a trick show. The sound of the waterfall gurgling, as if pouring down from the mountain stream of dozens of zhang, is beautiful.

Everyone was amazed, and even the Empress Dowager Guo nodded and applauded.

At this time, Empress Dowager Guo looked at Li Yi and asked, "Yi'er, can you read?" ”

Li Yi nodded: "I recognize." ”

He didn't say anything nice or boast modestly, but simply answered her question.

Empress Dowager Guo asked again: "Then do you know how to compose poems?" ”

Li Yi nodded again: "It will also be a little." ”

Empress Dowager Guo glanced at the fennel behind her, "Okay, today's waterfall, you can compose a poem on the spot to show the mourning family, it can be regarded as the mourning family's test of your knowledge." ”

Li Yi remained silent. So Fennel took out a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone out of nowhere, and put it on the table, and a little palace maid rolled up her sleeves to polish the ink for him.

Li Yi didn't refuse, tilted his head and thought about it, then lifted the brush. Empress Dowager Guo has been watching him hold the pen, it is very standard, it looks like she often practices, she can't help but nod secretly in her heart. Li Yi doesn't write fast, but his posture is very stable, and his foundation doesn't seem to be weak.

About a stick of incense, Li Yi wrote, and the little palace maid who grinded the ink took it to the Queen Mother for him.

Guo Nianyun was a little surprised, this child's one-handed writing is very beautiful, even when Ning'er was alive, he may not be able to write so well at this age.

Written on the paper was a seven-character quatrain:

Thousands of rocks and ravines are tireless, and the provenance is high when you look at it from a distance. How can the stream be kept, but the sea will be the waves.

Empress Dowager Guo looked at the paper in her hand that had not yet dried, and was not shocked at all. This poem is clear and powerful, far-reaching, and contains great ambition, frankly admitting that he is not a thing in the pool, and ordinary people can appreciate it!

Zheng Qiaoqiao has never left the Buddha Hall for more than ten years, she has nothing else to do, and has devoted her whole life to teaching her son. This kid was really well taught.

Although the way he looked at Empress Dowager Guo could make her clearly feel that he didn't like her, and even hated her, she still admired this child.

Empress Dowager Guo glanced at the fennel behind her and said, "Reward." ”

So Fennel gestured behind her, and saw five or six palace maids, holding pen, ink, paper, inkstone, jewelry, gold and jade, various colored fabrics, antique toys, poems, books and books, etc., standing in a row in front of Li Yi.

Li Yi still looked faint, and only heard Empress Dowager Guo say at this time: "You are doing very well today, and your poems are also very good, and you are very angry for your mother, and the mourning family wants to reward you." She pointed in front of Li Yi and said, "However, these things are not all for you, you can choose two of them to bring back to Taiji Palace." ”

If he wants to get the praise of everyone in this Hanyuan Hall and show his high style and bright festival, he should probably choose pen, ink, paper, inkstone and poetry books. If you don't want to stand out too much, maybe you should choose jewelry, gold and jade and other mundane things. Empress Dowager Guo smiled faintly, but her eyes always fell on him, taking in every trace of his expression.

Li Yi looked at the few things in front of him carefully, and finally stayed on the pile of fabrics of various colors for a long time, and then knelt down to the Empress Dowager Guo and kowtowed: "Yi only wants that pile of fabrics." If the Queen Mother thinks that she can give Yi two rewards, Yi hopes to get two pieces of fabric. ”

Empress Dowager Guo's fingers trembled lightly at the bottom of her sleeve. She didn't ask why, because she knew that the child's answer wouldn't be nice.

His tone was too calm, but she could already see that the child did not want to appear to be smart or stupid in front of everyone, and he was only complaining that she, the mother-in-law, had mistreated their mother and son, so that they could not even wear a decent dress, and that he needed the fabric back to make clothes, and to make clothes for his mother.

He lowered his head, but Empress Dowager Guo already knew clearly that this child hated her. While Zheng Qiaoqiao devoted his whole life to teaching him, he also planted a resentment deeply in this child's bones.

"If you like it, take it. In addition...... "Empress Dowager Guo thought for a while," asked Du Qiu to take ten horses each of Su Luo and Soft Smoke Luo to Zheng Qiaoqiao. ”

In fact, she is not as miserable as she believes that Zheng Qiaoqiao is really living. Du Qiu is an old acquaintance with her, and the old people in the palace know it. There is such a dignified Du Dianyi in the Shangfu Bureau, at least the people in the Shangfu Bureau send clothes and fabrics, where do they dare to make ideas from their mother and son?

Li Yi's expression didn't change much, but he thanked the Queen Mother according to etiquette, and seeing that the Queen Mother didn't seem to have anything else to say, and was about to retire, the Queen Mother Guo suddenly stopped him again: "Yi'er, wait." ”

The leg he was about to retract froze and he stood there silently waiting for the next step. I only heard that Empress Dowager Guo looked back at the few palace maids behind her, and suddenly said, "Yuzhu, from today on, you will follow Yi'er." ”

Although Yuzhu was a little surprised, she didn't say much, walked out from behind her, and bowed to her: "The slave maid is sent by the Queen Mother." He made a palace salute to Li Yi again, "Slave Yuzhu, I have seen the four princes." ”

Everyone knows that Yuzhu is one of the four palace people around the Empress Dowager Guo, and has followed the Empress Dowager Guo for more than 20 years, and he also has some prestige in the Liushang Bureau. Did she do this, did she ask Yuzhu to watch the Zheng mother and son, or did she send Yuzhu over because the child said that the people below had deducted their things?

Li Yi bit her lip, "Empress Dowager Xie." ”

Empress Dowager Guo nodded and raised her hand to signal him to return to his seat. Yuzhu saluted the Empress Dowager Guo again and followed.

The four palace people around her, fennel she is reluctant, Chonglou is a little dull, it is better for them to be flexible. Green pothos and jade bamboo, think about it, or jade bamboo is more suitable, she is the person Li Chun personally trained, with the stability of pothos and the wit of fennel.

Li Yi, a child, really needs such a person to help him, and secondly, he can also observe his temperament.

The family banquet of Qixi Festival, although it is just a family banquet, there are many people invited, and the word spreads very quickly. Soon, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty already knew that on that day, the Empress Dowager Guo let the four princes, who had been living in seclusion in the deep palace and were not favored, show her face, and it seemed that the Empress Dowager seemed to appreciate him a lot, and appreciated a lot of things, even the palace maids around her were rewarded to him, which was a treatment that even His Majesty had never had.

Although His Majesty already has children under his knees, he is still young, and he has not even learned to speak and walk, at least for now, the competitiveness cannot be compared with the four princes who are about to become adults.

So everyone speculated, did Empress Dowager Guo intend to start cultivating the four princes? Someone hurriedly wrote a letter and asked for the canonization of the four princes as princes. For a while, the direction of the wind in the middle of the court changed greatly, and countless people were staring at the every move of Empress Dowager Guo and His Majesty.

However, more than half a month has passed, except for the day of the Chinese Valentine's Day, Empress Dowager Guo seems to have forgotten about this matter, and those excerpts that asked for the canonization of the four princes have also sunk into the sea like a stone, and there is no news.

So everyone's hearts gradually settled down again, and they began to speculate that maybe Empress Dowager Guo just felt that she had treated the four princes a little badly over the years, so she was just merciful for a while. After all, His Majesty is still young, even if the prince is still just a milk doll, so what? Waiting for His Majesty to grow older, the milk doll will grow up.

She didn't mention it, she didn't mention it on purpose. Li Heng is seriously ill, for the sake of the stability of the court, it has not been announced to the outside world, and there are only so few people who know about it. She needs to prepare for the worst in the shortest possible time and choose a suitable heir, just in case.

But Li Yi is not the most suitable person, to some extent, even if he is good enough to work for the well-being of Datang, he has always been excluded, unless it is absolutely necessary.

After all, he is not really Li Chun's bloodline, and his mother is Zheng Qiaoqiao, the Zheng Qiaoqiao who hates her to the bone.

It's just that at the moment, she really can't find a better heir. She could only hope that Imperial Doctor Liang could bring a miracle, and as long as Heng'er was fine, these would not be the problems that bothered her at all.

She can't show much interest in Li Yi yet, she understands that people's ambitions can't be easily aroused, and once they are aroused, it is difficult to extinguish. Whether it is for Zheng Qiaoqiao, Li Yi, or those ministers who are trying to speculate, she can't let them have other thoughts before Li Heng really dies.

She can't repeat the mistake of Li Yun back then.