How did she know that the Queen Mother would not consider these at all, only considering that her son had never touched a woman's body over the years, and even the only princess was agreed to marry her by threatening her life, but she had not touched the princess's body so far, afraid that her son would have any special habits, of course the Queen Mother wanted to marry a bunch of women to prove that her son was normal, as for Zhang Yan's thoughts, she didn't take it into account at all.

There are so many beautiful ladies in the capital, each with its own merits, and there is always one that can enter the eyes of his son......

The Queen Mother thought.

By the way, there is also the handmaid in blue clothes, this girl is not good-looking, but she finally let her son touch her, which is also a great achievement. Rush Ming'er into the palace, and then take a look, if she has a gentle and pure personality, then she will be the master and let Jing'er accept her as a side concubine.

Here Zhang Yan was thinking about her heart indignantly, but she didn't know that the Queen Mother had already planned everything early.

The next journey was extremely smooth, and no one in those carriages passing by was as unscrupulous as the Wang family, and when they passed by the Zhang family's carriage, they avoided it one after another.

The expression on Zhang Yan's face looked a little better.

Not long after entering the palace gate, she arrived at the Cining Palace where the Queen Mother lived, Zhang Yan was helped by Xiaoyue to get off the carriage and slowly walked to the palace.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Yan entered the Cining Palace, she heard a hearty laugh, she had never seen the Queen Mother so happy for a long time, Zhang Yan's heart moved, but when she looked up, the smile on her face suddenly froze.

I saw that the person sitting next to the Queen Mother and making her laugh was none other than her sworn enemy Wang Yanfei!

This person almost hit her car at the gate of the palace just now! If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have come so late, she was the one who caused it! Zhang Yan was angry, but Ye could only put down the resentment in her heart, and stepped forward to ask the Queen Mother for a leaf: "Yan'er see the Queen Mother!" ”

"Come here! Come by the side of the mourning family! The Queen Mother raised her eyes and saw Zhang Yan, and immediately stretched out her hand to her with a smile.

"Empress Dowager Xie!" Zhang Yan thanked her, stepped forward with joy, took the Queen Mother's hand and sat down beside her, while Wang Yanfei and some other women from the family were given a seat by the Queen Mother and sat down.

It's clear who is close and who is far away.

The sense of superiority in Zhang Yan's heart suddenly arose spontaneously, she admitted that in front of the Queen Mother, she can always find a sense of superiority, only at this time, the identity of the future Princess Jing can bring her a trace of happiness, but it is limited to that.

Wang Yanfei sat on the far right of the lower head, and she was also the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but her treatment in front of the Queen Mother was very different! Her eyes flashed, and she hid the jealousy in her heart well, revealing only the most perfect smile.

"Yan'er, why did you think of going to the palace to visit the mourning family today?" The Queen Mother asked Zhang Yan with a smile.

"Back to the Queen Mother, Yan'er has nothing to do at home on weekdays, so I want to enter the palace to relieve the Queen Mother's boredom." Zhang Yan said, then took out a box and said: "This is a walnut cake made by Yan'er herself, I heard that the Queen Mother likes to eat this the most, so I made it, I hope you don't dislike it." ”

"What words! It's good that you're willing to come to visit the mourning family, how can the mourning family dislike it? The Queen Mother smiled, and actually took a piece of walnut cake from the plate in her hand, and did not want the palace people to inspect it, and took a bite slowly.

Aunt Jingyun's face flashed on the side, but seeing that the Queen Mother was in good spirits, she was smart not to come forward to disturb.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan and the others immediately took out the things they had prepared.

"Queen Mother, this is the pine nut cake prepared for you by the slave maid."

"It's a crystal cake."

"Mung bean cake."

……

A large group of young ladies took out all kinds of pastries and rushed to send them to the Queen Mother, but no one refused to be left behind. The hall was suddenly filled with the sweet smell of pastries.

"Don't come forward!" The Queen Mother frowned when she saw this scene: "The mourning family doesn't like sweets, take these things back!" Yan'er knows the preferences of the mourning family, so she made this, this walnut cake is salty, and the mourning family can eat two bites. ”=$][]

When everyone heard this, their expressions became sneering, after all, it was the first time to enter the palace, and it was normal to not know the queen mother's preferences!

But at this time, Wang Yanfei on the side suddenly spoke: "Queen Mother, there is no sugar in this peach blossom cake made by Yan Fei." Would you like to give it a try? ”

When the Queen Mother heard this, she immediately turned her head, and when she looked at it, she saw more than a dozen neat pastries on the plate in front of Wang Yanfei, all of which were made into the shape of peach blossoms, some were fully open, some were half-open, and some even had a few green leaves underneath, which was really lifelike and beautiful.

"It's a delicate pastry." The Queen Mother couldn't help but admire.

Zhang Yan on the side changed her face, but it was difficult to speak.

Wang Yanfei smiled and said, "Queen Mother, there is no sugar in it, do you want to taste it?" "He's in Zhendi.

The queen mother had eaten the walnut cake made by Zhang Yan once before, but she had never eaten Wang Yanfei's high point, so she nodded and said, "Okay." Hearing this, Wang Yanfei was ecstatic for a while, and hurriedly walked to the Queen Mother with the plate in her hand, and the daughters on both sides all showed disgruntled expressions, only Zhang Yan still struggled to maintain a smile on her face.

Soon. The plate of peach blossom cake was handed to the Queen Mother, and Aunt Jingyue wanted to reach out to take it, but the Queen Mother waved her hand, reached out and took one herself, and took a bite gently.

Wang Yanfei stared at the Queen Mother nervously, for fear of missing a trace of her expression.

After a long time, a smile appeared on the queen mother's face: "Not bad."

。 ”

Wang Yanfei was suddenly ecstatic, Zhang Yan was the official princess of King Jing, and the Queen Mother just said a good word, and she actually got the same compliment!

"Empress Dowager Xie!" Zhang Yan said excitedly.

The Queen Mother smiled at her and handed the pastry in her hand to Aunt Jingyue on the side, but she finished eating Zhang Yan's walnut cake. Although she gave the two girls the same praise, who kissed and who was sparse. The Queen Mother is still very clear.

But even so, Wang Yanfei already has a lot more face than the daughter next to her.

But she didn't think of this at all, and when the Queen Mother didn't notice it, there was a crack in the smile on Wang Yanfei's face.

But the Queen Mother didn't pay attention to this, and once again chatted with the daughters.

Her purpose is to choose a side concubine for her son, so the focus is to observe whether the character of these girls is pure or not, as for the appearance or something, it is secondary.

This time, the daughter who came to the palace, the queen mother was more satisfied with Miss Xuanyuan Huiqing of the Shilang Mansion. There is also Miss Yao Yulan of the Bachelor's Mansion, these two girls are not so outstanding, but their personalities are very docile, and the most important thing is that their father's official positions are all in the fourth rank of the court, and there is still a certain distance between them and Prime Minister Zhang Cheng, which to a certain extent restricts these two young ladies from being disrespectful to Zhang Yan after entering the Jingwang Mansion as side concubines in the future.

Although she chose a side concubine for her son, the queen mother's favorite in her heart was always Zhang Yan.

The ladies also knew what the Queen Mother was announcing their purpose in entering the palace today, so they all worked hard to show themselves in front of the Queen Mother. But everyone wants to show the gentle and generous appearance to the Queen Mother, so the scene is also harmonious.

Zhang Yan also tried her best to maintain the smile on her face, God knows that when she sees this group of warblers and warblers, her head is going to explode!

Everyone sat for a while, and the Queen Mother felt a little tired, so she waved her hand and said, "The mourning family is a little sleepy." A few of you, it's easy to enter the palace, so let's go to the imperial garden together! At this time, the chrysanthemums bloom brilliantly, and you come back to bring a few back to the mourning family, and put them on this hall so that the mourning family can also smell the fragrance. ”

When the daughters heard this, they were very happy in their hearts, and hurriedly responded: "Yes!" Dowager! ”

After a while, everyone went to the imperial garden under the leadership of the eunuch.

When there was no one else in the hall, the Queen Mother instructed Jingyue: "You go and follow them." Don't be discovered, secretly observe the character of these girls, don't pay attention to anything that happens, but come back and report it to the mourning family. "He's a long history.

"Yes! The Queen Mother! Jingyue listened, nodded immediately, and withdrew to quietly follow behind those young ladies.

The Queen Mother sat in the hall, stroked her forehead with her hand, frowned and said, "Why does the mourning family feel a little headache?" Just now, she looked energetic, but at this moment, the whole person is like a frosted eggplant.

The palace maid who was waiting on the side hurriedly said, "Queen Mother, do you want it?"

The slave went to ask the imperial doctor to come over? ”

"No need, it's not a big deal, help the mourning family to go to the inner hall to rest and rest." The Queen Mother waved her hand.

Several palace maids responded and helped her to the apse together.

Now. Aunt Jingyue quietly followed a few girls to the imperial garden.

The royal garden, the magnificence that has been built, the scenery that everyone sees along the way, are all beautiful, and the chrysanthemums in full bloom in this season, are in full bloom like fire, everyone remembers the instructions of the queen mother, so as long as they see the beautiful chrysanthemums along the way, the ladies will flock to it.

Within a moment, everyone took a few yellow chrysanthemums in their hands, and some even picked a large handful, such as Wang Yanfei, among all of them, she picked the most. And the flowers had become bare and ugly to death because they had been ravaged and picked. It's just that the ladies all looked down and looked excitedly at the chrysanthemums in their hands, and no one paid attention to these.

Zhang Yan stood on the periphery stupidly, just now she was a little slower in order to show reserve, at this moment everyone has flowers in their hands, but she is standing there empty-handed, she is a little annoyed in her heart, but she doesn't dare to show it on her face at all.

It seems that there are only a few of them in this imperial garden, and there may be many more people snooping on them! She must leave her gentle and generous temperament to everyone, and she must not make a mistake! Thinking like this, Zhang Yan felt better, but the regret of not picking the flowers still stimulated her heart.

At this moment, she suddenly saw that there were two girls in the crowd who were also empty, Zhang Yan suddenly stepped forward and asked, "Miss Xuanyuan, Miss Yao, everyone went to pick flowers, why didn't you go?" ”

Yao Xuanyuan and the others didn't seem to expect Zhang Yan to come over and talk to them in person, they were all startled, Yao Yulan calmed down, and bowed slightly to Zhang Yan, and said in a crisp voice: "Miss Zhang, although the Queen Mother ordered me to wait for the flowers to go back to her to watch, but there are so many of us, if everyone picks some flowers and goes back, then Cining Palace will not be able to let go, and this is probably not the original intention of the Queen Mother, after all, scarcity is precious." Besides, this flower grows in the imperial garden, it is for people to enjoy, and now we will pick it up, the masters of the palace, the emperor, the queen, the princes, the concubines came to the imperial garden to enjoy, saw this scene, is not very angry? As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the flowers.

Suddenly, after being ravaged by thousands of gold, the bare flowers that were scattered and unsightly came into everyone's eyes.

Everyone was shocked, followed by a wave of fear.

Yao Yulan spoke again: "Therefore, if everyone is so enthusiastic about picking flowers for the Queen Mother, I will not fight." Anyway, everyone's mind is the same. We came together, and we took it together when something happened. ”

Although the words she said earlier pointed out the powerful relationship, she invisibly offended all the daughters, but she was smart after all, and the words she said later showed that although she did not pick the flowers, if there was a punishment

, she will bear it with everyone, so it's too late for everyone to like her, so how can they blame her?

Soon, a beautiful girl with a goose egg face in the daughters immediately smiled and said, "Sister Yao, you still think clearly!" If you hadn't reminded us that we were all so eager to pick the flowers, it wouldn't be long before the Imperial Garden would have suffered! This thing is not big, it is not small, in case the real emperor comes to enjoy the flowers, won't he be angry when he sees this scene? Then there will be our sins. ”

"Isn't it! Thanks to Miss Yao for the reminder! And they all chimed in.

Yao Yulan saw everyone's praise, a trace of blush suddenly appeared on her fair face, she lowered her head and said: "Don't be busy thanking me, these words are just mentioned to me by Miss Xuanyuan, if you want to thank you, then thank her!" ”

Xuanyuan Huiqing didn't expect Yao Yulan to say this, so she was suddenly startled, and hurriedly said: "How can there be!" I just mentioned that your queen mother only said that we should bring a few flowers back, not that one person brought a handful, these are all your own thoughts, don't be modest! ”

"Yes! Sister Yao, you are too modest! The egg-faced girl immediately smiled.

Zhang Yan recognized this girl, her name is Ren Jiaying, born in the Hou Mansion, although his father did not be an official in the court, but his grandfather was the famous emperor Ren Zhongyuan in the capital, the Queen Mother also valued her very much, and she was a popular candidate for the side concubine of His Royal Highness King Jing, but the emperor also had plans to make her the third princess, and it was still unknown who this girl would be the daughter-in-law of.

However, if she can be the prince's concubine, she should not disdain to be a side concubine and be subservient, right? Zhang Yan thought in her heart. But the anger in her heart couldn't be suppressed, obviously she was the leader of this group, but she didn't expect to be snatched away by Yao Xuanyuan and Ren Jiaying!

She stood there, her face so gloomy that she could drip water.

These ladies who entered the palace this time, with this Ren Jiaying's identity as the most noble, are almost on an equal footing with her. Zhang Yan's hand was clenched tightly in her sleeve, and it was easy to not speak.

But at this moment, Wang Yanfei on the side suddenly interjected: "Miss Xuanyuan, Miss Yao, don't you say so much, don't you want us to give you some of the flowers we have picked?" ”

As soon as everyone turned around, they saw Wang Yanfei holding a large handful of chrysanthemums in his hand, the flowers were exquisite, and they looked much better than others.

Before Yao Xuanyuan and the others could speak, Ren Jiaying sneered and said, "Miss Wang, don't you remember the instructions of the Queen Mother when she went out?" She only needs a few old people! You are holding such a pile by yourself, do you want to fill the Cining Palace? ”

"I didn't!" Wang Yanfei is usually sharp and arrogant, but in front of Ren Jiaying, she couldn't say a word, and her face was flushed with anger.

"It's good if you don't have it! Take the flowers! Since you picked it yourself, you will personally send it to the Queen Mother, Xuanyuan

Sister, Sister Yao, there are other flowers in this garden, let's pick a little novelty for the Queen Mother, and ask Miss Wang to give such a large handful of flowers to the Queen Mother! When the time comes, if the emperor comes to enjoy the flowers in the imperial garden, and sees this scene, everyone will see you picking it......"

When Wang Yanfei heard this, his face turned green all of a sudden.

! Ren Jiaying is going to put the responsibility for destroying the flowers on her!

Wang Yanfei refused to do it, she pointed at Zheng Jiaying with her finger and said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense here!" How could the emperor have found out about this? Besides, so many people here have picked it up, why are you all to blame on me? Don't you have one in your hand? Wow! You're trying to make me take on these responsibilities alone! ”

The more Wang Yanfei spoke, the more angry she became, the foaming stars splashed, Yao Xuanyuan and the others glanced at her in disgust, and retreated silently, and the daughters also retreated.

Zheng Jiaying couldn't stand Wang Yanfei herself, she took a big step back, and sneered at each other: "All of us are just picking one flower per person, this is nothing at all, look at yourself, the bouquet of flowers in your hand is more than all of us combined!" ”

Wang Yanfei looked down at the large bouquet of flowers in his hand, and suddenly couldn't speak. After hearing Yao Yulan's words and experiencing Ren Jiaying's sarcasm, she already understood that she couldn't have this flower, but she couldn't throw it away casually. Otherwise, it's even more disgusting.

She really didn't know what to do. This meeting is really not going to get off the stage.

Zhang Yan stood aside, looking at the old rival's helpless appearance in front of everyone, but her heart blossomed.

(End of chapter)