The north Qingming planted willows, and the Dragon Boat Festival planted wormwood.

After another half of the day, everyone had a little heartiness on their faces, Cixi's eyebrows and eyebrows were springy, and she slowly got up and helped Li Lianying's hand to walk to the gate of Taihe Palace, stared out for a moment, turned around and smiled: "Emperor, the mourning family looks at the scenery outside today is very good, the emperor has worked hard to deal with political affairs in the Yangxin Palace all day long, why don't you take advantage of the warmth to accompany the mourning family to walk around?" ”

Hearing this, the wine glass in his hand trembled slightly, and before he could answer, Longyu naturally smiled at Yingyingjiao, "Lafayette is right, it's a good situation, you should really go out for a walk." ”

Zai Yan lowered his head and took a sip of wine, the smile on the corner of his lips was like a pebble rain stone thrown into the water, and suddenly sank to the bottom of the water, there was silence, and after a while, he slowly said: "It's okay," After a while, he turned his head and asked me, "Since the Dragon Boat Festival is a preparation for the concubine, can the concubine have any preparations in advance?" ”

I didn't look over my head a little to look at the few white clouds outside the window, which looked particularly wide in the twilight, and couldn't help laughing: "It is said that the Qingming Dynasty inserts willows, the Dragon Boat Festival inserts wormwood, and the servants have already prepared mugwort branches and wormwood leaves for the emperor and Lafayette, and if the emperor and Lafayette are interested, they can go to the imperial garden to send wormwood to sacrifice the dragon vein." ”

Zai Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Very good." ”

The blood on Longyu's face faded, and he smiled reluctantly, "Concubine Zhen always does things without leakage, so that people can't find any mistakes." ”

I sighed silently in my heart, but there was still a decent smile on the corner of my mouth, "The queen mother praises it falsely, the slave is just afraid that it will not be good, the slave is not as expensive as the queen's mother, and then Lafayette and the emperor will definitely think the slave is stupid." ”

There was silence for a moment, and his gaze crossed Longyu's face coldly.

Cixi came in my direction and said to me with a smile: "What is this said by Concubine Zhen," her eyes locked on me, "You should know in your own heart how much the mourning family values you as a child, and today's Dragon Boat Festival is very impressive, and the mourning family is very satisfied." ”

I bowed my head and said with a light smile: "Thanks to Li Anda always helping the minions by his side, otherwise the minions would be in a hurry, where can there be today?" ”

Cixi glanced at Li Lianying with a smile sideways, Li Lianying blessed her body, "The slave is only going to ask two times in three days, how dare you take credit?" He smiled again: "It's still the little master Zhen who is smart, you don't need to worry about the minions, you can see through it at all." ”

Cixi came to me, gently took my hand, and said with a smile: "Then let's hurry up to the Imperial Garden to see what tricks you clever ghost has played!" ”

I saluted and said softly, "Yes." ”

I was held by Cixi to go out side by side, walking for half a moment, I can vaguely see the corner of the pool, what I can see is the green leaves like jasper floating on the water, Cixi softly sighed: "The warm sun and the wind are inexhaustible, and the branches and leaves are endless." ”

Ziyu followed behind and suddenly said, "They all say that orchids are noble, but the minions don't think so." ”

Cixi smiled at the corner of her eyes, "oh", stopped, looked back at Ziyu, and asked with a smile: "So how do you feel?" ”

Ziyu smiled faintly, "Out of the mud but not stained, clear ripples but not demons, in the heart of the minion Lian is actually a real noble gentleman." ”

I glanced at Zai Yan carefully, he only pursed his lips and said nothing, he didn't seem to have a trace of interest, Longyu stayed by his side for half a step and refused to relax, and from time to time he picked something to talk to Zai Xiang, but Zai Xiang never responded. Xu felt a little embarrassed, Longyu only lowered his eyes, and asked Ziyu with a smile: "Then according to what you said, the four gentlemen called by the predecessors, Meilan Zhuju is not completely inferior to the lotus?" She didn't give Ziyu any chance to save the tide at all, and then said sarcastically: "It can be seen that Concubine Jin's statement is really ridiculous and generous!" ”

Although I didn't say much on the side, but I had already rolled my eyes in my heart, the reason why Ziyu said this was completely to follow Cixi's words to please Cixi, and the concubines present more or less had some numbers in their hearts, but Longyu didn't have any number, and he had to interject this sentence more, which made Cixi unhappy.

Cixi's smile froze on her face, and the concubine of Emperor Dunyi thought for a moment, turned her arm lightly, and reminded: "Queen Mother, plum blossoms and snow are all cut and icy, and she is arrogant. The orchid empty valley is fragrant, and the lonely fragrance is self-appreciative. Bamboo sieves the wind and makes the moon, and it is chic for a lifetime. Chrysanthemum frost on its own, not towards inflammation. In fact, the lotus flower is not into the four gentlemen, Xu is the predecessors think that the lotus is the most noble, and there is no flower to compare with it? ”

Under the countless hints from the eyes of Emperor Dunyi, Longyu's gaze finally swept to Cixi's cold face, and he was so frightened that he was shocked, "The slave is short-sighted. ”

Cixi said "um" softly, and continued to lead everyone forward, the willow trees by the pond are inextricably linked, the willow shadows are swaying, dancing in the wind, the willow moving shadow is like a girl dressing in the mirror, and like a fairy with fluttering sleeves, she pointed to the willow branches, and her eyes turned and said: "When I was young, the head of the family always liked to fold the willow branches to make garlands for the children to wear." ”

Emperor Dunyi came up and asked with a smile: "Lafayette has also worn it?" ”

Cixi smiled "hehe", "Why don't you wear it, which woman who has not been out of the cabinet doesn't like to dress up with bright beads and flowers?" ”

Zai Yan listened, his eyes only looked at me with affection, and then smiled lightly and lowered his head, unfortunately this scene happened to be in Longyu's full view, the corners of her mouth pulled up, and said with a smile: "Zhen Concubine is different, every time the slave sees Zhen Concubine is dressed plainly, it can be seen that the sentence 'clear water out of hibiscus, natural carving', isn't it Zhen Concubine?" ”

I looked at Zaiyan wistfully, smiled lightly, and then turned to look at Cixi, "The slave has been like this since he was a child, his life is messy, even if he wants to dress up, he can't be compared to Lafayette's dexterity and delicacy." ”

Cixi stroked my arm and said with a smile: "You kid, how can you say this about yourself, the mourning family sees that this banquet is doing well today, how can a woman not dress up, next time you come to Ningshou Palace to mourn the family to teach you personally, keep it so that you are simple and not lose color." ”

I laughed, "That's because the emperor and Lafayette don't dislike the clumsiness of the minions, if you can get the true inheritance of Lafayette, the minions really can't ask for it." ”

Cixi walked while enjoying the scenery, I gradually pulled out, Zai Xiang took advantage of the situation to shake my fingers, he stared at me with apology and comfort in his eyes, and after a while, whispered, "Tell me, what else have you prepared?" ”

I thought in my heart that Zai Yan really understood me, pursed my lips and smiled, looked at him and said, "The slave doesn't tell the emperor." ”

Zai Yan lowered his eyes to look at me and said with a faint smile: "Okay, you, your wings are stiff." ”

I raised my eyes to look at him, and said in a low voice, "No," after a moment of silence, I said, "The emperor's eyes are not right when he looks at that little Danjiao," and as I spoke, I pursed my lips slightly, looked at Zai Yan, and asked, "Does the emperor have something to hide from his servants?" ”

Zai Yan was stunned, and a look that saw through me rippled on his face, and he couldn't help grinning, "Where did you think of going?" Then he leaned in and said, "You think too much, I swear, I never have." ”

My eyes brushed over his face, and I licked my lips weakly, "The minion didn't think so. ”

Zai Yan smiled and let out a soft "um", as if he didn't believe it.

I lowered my head slightly, before I was about to speak, I faintly heard a melodious and tactful sound of silk and bamboo not far away, when everyone was shocked and stunned, I had to quietly step back and go out to arrange, before I wanted to raise my feet, my hand was grabbed by Zaiyan, he frowned and asked me: "Why are you going?" ”

I looked at him and whispered, "The emperor will know later." With that, I gently brushed my hand and quickly withdrew from the crowd.

Immediately, he ordered Bai Ge, who had been following him left and right: "Go and take out the prepared mugwort leaves." ”

Bai Ge responded.

About a moment later, there were hundreds of more kites in the sky, some with soft wings, some with hard wings, all kinds of eagles, butterflies, bees, swallows, cranes, phoenixes, dragonflies, cicadas, flower baskets, mandarin ducks, magpies, parrots, a gap flying in the sky, full of prosperity, even I was dazzled, and the sounds of admiration around me were naturally one after another, endlessly.

Zai Xiang and Cixi were watching dizzily, and I smiled: "Although it is said that the Qingming Dynasty inserts willows and the Dragon Boat Festival inserts wormwood, but the slave knows that the Dragon Boat Festival also wants to release paper kites, so he specially ordered the Internal Affairs Office to use mugwort branches and wormwood leaves to make these paper kites fly." ”

Saying that, I handed the handle of the line to the hands of Zai Xiang and Cixi, and the internal supervisor had already divided the thread, and the two of them first held the handle of the wire and held it, and then the palace maid handed over a small pair of scissors, which were sharpened and made very exquisitely, just a light cut, the kite would fly far away into the sky, and would never be entangled with each other.

What I gave to Cixi was a large soft-winged kite with a "phoenix in flight", which was sewn out of golden silk for more than three days, and the brilliant colors still shined very brightly even in such a soft twilight day.

In the hands of the hand is the "dragon and crane nine days" pattern, I personally designed, personally painted, the painstaking affection is not the slightest, the wings of the crane top are relaxed, the system is very realistic, the crane sings nine Gao, Ding Cheng Longsheng, excellent meaning.

In the sky for a while, the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, reflecting each other, so not spectacular.

Longyu, who was standing behind me, was obviously shocked and angry, and just snorted coldly.

Ziyu walked to my side and said with a smile: "If you really have a good idea, how can you come up with such a clever layout?" ”

I groaned, thinking to myself, just kidding, I'm a modern person who has traveled over more than a hundred years later, if I don't know more than you ancients, I don't want to mix up, but I only joked: "People are pushed to the extreme, and they can't think of anything." ”

Looking up, a pool of clear water and green leaves, the water waves are soft and rippling, folding thousands of streamer ripples and the golden slanting sun are brilliantly connected.