Jun Yuxuan was very happy and said with a smile: "Why bother to give lanterns, just don't you promise me." ”

"Ahh Shangguan Wanxuan suddenly felt that his body was light, and he was picked up by Jun Yusulfone in the air, and the dark perilla brocade on the wide couch was also implicated and slid down, and he was tired on the ground with a "snort", and the crescent-shaped pattern twisted into a graceful pattern, like a cloud of purple clouds like smoke and mist piled at the foot of the bed.

"Wan'er, hold me tighter......" Jun Yuxuan didn't finish speaking, and Shangguan Wanxuan had already blushed with a pretty face.

Jun Yuxuan walked out on a pile of brocade silk, and the palace people knelt on the ground. Shangguan Wansu was a little embarrassed, and with a slight struggle, Jun Yuqiu's body couldn't help but shake a few times, and Shangguan Wanxuan had to hug it tighter. Who knew that Jun Yucheng was very interested, so he simply hugged her and turned around in the hall, and the two laughed brightly, and floated out like waves in the water......

The skillful craftsman hall set up the lantern shelf and sent it, the knives and bamboo strips are in danger, naturally the imperial concubine can not be allowed to do it, the so-called emperor wants to tie the lantern himself, but it is just a painting paste. Even so, it was quite cumbersome, the little palace maids were responsible for laying the lamp paper, and the little eunuchs specially boiled the paste, carefully checked whether there were bamboo thorns, and washed them several times to dry.

Six-foot-long sandalwood black lacquer carved long case, jade paperweight, ancient wood pen holder, incense research treasure ink, beauty flower goblet and other things in the study room are placed on the case one after another, and the side head of a white jade carved double fish wash is very exquisite. The seed white jade of the upper body is warm and moist, the lower body is the natural black stone jade as the bottom, divided into two just right, decorated with snow lotus patterns along the mouth, the body is decorated with a complicated tangle pattern, the bottom of the wash two ink-colored fish are lifelike, the clear water is clear and slightly rippling, and the fish are like cruising with the waves in the wash.

"Why, I've been watching this washing, is it reluctant to use it?" Jun Yuchuan sat next to him and studied ink, looked at Shangguan who was uncertain and said with a smile: "No matter how beautiful the washing is, it is only used to wash ink, and I will send another ten hundred when I turn around, as long as you like it." ”

"The emperor is so verbose, and the concubines he said seem to have never even seen a good wash, so please study the ink carefully." Shangguan Wanwan put the jade tube wolf on the pen holder, and thought that the amber lapis lazuli bracelet on his wrist was in the way, so he took it down and put it next to him, "The concubine is looking at the fish in the wash, if the ink goes down, it will definitely be dark and unclear." ”

Jun Yuchuan smiled: "If you like to watch it, then change it again." ”

Shangguan Wanwan shook his head with a smile, and said: "It's ridiculous that the person who does washing must think that his craftsmanship is wonderful, but he doesn't know that washing is originally a thing for washing ink, and there is nothing that is not used with water?" In this way, he is also a stupid person, but a waste of wonderful craftsmanship. ”

Jun Yuyu stopped the gold ink stick in his hand and laughed loudly: "Wan'er's words should be heard by the craftsman, won't she faint in anger?" There are so many stupid people in the world, let's put up lanterns. ”

As he spoke, he dipped the ink stick in the ink and dripped it a few times, "You try the ink first to see if the shade is appropriate?" ”

Shangguan Wanxuan quickly drew the lamp paper, a very simple picture of two ducks playing in the water, two playful green ducks, one big and one small, one deep and one shallow, the water and grass in the shallow waves are green, sparse and sparse. The two green ducks play side by side, and their posture in the water is quite expressive, and only a few strokes seem to float on the paper. According to the old custom, the double duck playing in the water means that the couple is intimate.

Jun Yuyu looked at it for a long time, and the light flashed in her eyes, "Wan'er, are you painting double ducks?" ”

"Huh?" Shangguan Wan paused and stopped the jade tube in his hand, his mind was uncertain, and the past was like a reflection of a stream, but he only smiled faintly: "The emperor asked a strange question, isn't it a double duck." Could it be that the concubines didn't paint well, and the emperor couldn't recognize the two green ducks? ”

"Good, good." Jun Yu's eyes were full of joy, she gently hugged Shangguan Wansu in her arms, held the jade pen in her hand and painted the inscription, skimming horizontally and vertically in her hand, and writing down four words one stroke at a time---- affection!

Affection is not suspicious? Shangguan looked at the inscription on the painting and smiled in his heart.

The winter sun is warm and bright, and the snow for many days reflects the imperial city clearly, and occasionally the snow falls on the dead branches, making a "popping" sound, mixed with the sound of thin branches breaking and birds chirping......

"Niangniang, why did you let the emperor add a role to Shen Guiren? Treat you like she does, you don't pursue her, and you even intercede for her? ”

Shuanghuan's face was quite puzzled, and he sighed: "Besides, now the emperor has personally promised to make her a concubine." In the harem, she has the biggest temper, and she has been quiet for half a year, and she will definitely make chickens and dogs jump again when she turns back. ”

Shangguan was flickering with the double duck lanterns, thinking about the words that Jun Yuyu explained to herself that day. It turned out that Shen Rongrong was now a pawn arranged by Jun Yucheng in the harem. The previous scene in the Plum Garden was also because Shen Rongrong had something to come to the emperor, so he was misunderstood.

It was inconvenient for her to tell the maid what was going on, so she only said lightly: "You forget, she is the emperor's cousin." Even if she is arrogant, will the emperor not want to see her for the rest of her life? Listening to the emperor's tone, the queen seems to have said this a long time ago, and it is not too much for me to say it again. ”

When Shuanghuan heard this, he handed it over with the new tea and said, "What Niangniang said is also true, in fact, although Shen Guiren has a bigger temper, in the end he is still a person who speaks and acts openly, which is better than making a stumbling block behind his back." ”

Hey, think about it, day after day, the battle never ends. What year and month is the end? How much strength do you need to keep going? Shangguan Wan held the tea to warm his hands, as if he was tired and dazed, as if he was lazy and weak, and as if he was muttering to himself.

"Yes, do you think that Shen Rongrong has been in the East Palace for many years, she is not only a relative of the emperor's biological mother's family, but also has served the emperor for many years, how can the emperor be completely ruthless to her? Even if we don't flatter her now, a year after the emperor enters the Zichen Palace next year, it will be the time of the draft, when the time comes, how can the emperor look at Shen Guiren and just a nobleman and ignore it? In this case, it is better to push the boat with the current, and you have to save face. Besides, now that we're attracting resentment, we have to be careful in everything. ”

When Shuanghuan heard this, he looked at Shangguan's graceful face, and said with some hesitation: "However, the emperor ...... you to Niangniang."

"You all think that the emperor treats this palace a little differently, don't you?" Shangguan Wan sipped the tea and moistened his throat, and then smiled: "Jun En is unpredictable, the emperor is not a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, compared with the eternal stability of the Great Jin Xu Dynasty, what are other people and things?" Besides, ......" words came to his lips but he couldn't say it, and he had gone through several times between life and death, and he could no longer be as complacent as a young daughter.

It's always the grace that is infinite now, and the past and the entanglement behind the back still cast a cloud over each other after all.

Three days later, it was the day of the funeral nine days after the death of the Empress Dowager. On this day, all the concubines in the harem, all the officials and wives in Beijing, as well as the emperor's relatives and relatives, etc., all need to wear linen and filial piety, cry and mourn and walk for the empress dowager to the Liangshan Emperor's Mausoleum, which is located 30 miles away from the suburbs of the capital.

And Zichu and Shangguan Wansu, as royal daughters-in-law, are naturally not exempt from vulgarity. It's just that, because both of them are pregnant, in line with the principle of putting children first, they made a special case for the two of them to travel in two palace cars. Zichu sat in the palace car, thinking of the Empress Dowager Su Ri's tolerance and kindness to herself, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

Along the way, I only heard the cries of the people on both sides getting louder and louder, and then gradually the noise became in the ears, Zichu quietly lifted the curtain to take a look, only to see that I don't know when, the crowd on both sides of the team followed to kneel to see off the Queen Mother. She was full of emotion in her heart, and said in her heart, in the end, it was still kindness that made the personality charm of the Queen Mother more dignified, looking at these ordinary people, braving the cold weather, they automatically and spontaneously came out for the funeral, so thinking about it, even if the Queen Mother's life is more bumpy, it is worth it!

The palace car is particularly conspicuous in the crowd of people. Originally, this was a great chore for these delicate nobles and dignitaries. But along the way, I didn't hear a single person complain.

After walking for a long time, I finally came to the Liangshan Emperor's Mausoleum. Jun Yuchen came to help Zichu get out of the car, and the two of them walked out of the carriage not far away, and Zichu felt a chill in his neck.

It turned out to be snowing, and I don't know when it started, and the sky was covered with goose feathers!

The snow became heavier and heavier, as if it wanted to cover all the filth and unbearableness of the heavens and the earth. In less than half an hour, before the ceremonial officials finished reading the memorial text, they were already unbearable cold and began to change people in turn.

The emperor specially ordered Jun Yuchen to help Zichu go back to the palace car to warm up. Zichu sat in the car and stared sideways, watching the towering peaks in the distance quietly dyed white, attracted by the atmospheric silver weather, and then standing in front of the window with his hands in front of the window and looking into the distance, only to see that the plain flowers like flocculent flowers gradually grew bigger, like the fluff in the sky flying around, and the plain white color fell all over the sky, enveloping the huge capital city, and the snow was really getting bigger and bigger.

The snowflakes have a beautiful hexagonal shape, but they can't withstand the smoke of the stove on the window, and melt into crystal snow water little by little, and the soft smoke screen of the new paste autumn fragrance is drawn deeper traces, meandering and twisting and spreading, like a new painting splashed randomly on the window screen.

As the bell of the Empress Dowager was ringing dullly, Zichu closed his eyes a little tiredly, and two lines of tears slipped down quietly. It turns out that no matter how the vicissitudes of the world change, no matter how the dynasties change, the laws of nature remain unchanged. In the earthly world, the birth, old age, sickness and death, joy and sorrow of all living beings are insignificant between the eternal heaven and earth.

After the funeral of the Empress Dowager, the harem and the former dynasty fell into a kind of dullness with the imminent arrival of the Laba Festival.

Ten days later, Jiang Jiantao and Shangguan Yuanji, as well as Ye He Minglu and others, finally arrived in the capital. The emperor had already sent people to wait at the gate of the city, and as soon as the people arrived, they were all invited into the palace.

Zichu and Jun Yuchen have not been idle these days, in addition to accompanying Zichu back to Helian Mansion to visit his uncle and cousin and other relatives, Jun Yuchen naturally has to visit the two gods of Emperor Taishang and Empress Dowager Nalan from time to time.