February in the country of the Eagle is a good time for a hundred flowers to bloom, and the palace begins to prepare for the spring banquet early. This time, the spring banquet was no longer organized by the eldest princess, and it was the queen of Wei Zong, Li Qinhan, who was routinely organized.

The Heqing Hall was carefully arranged early, and the palace attendants carried finely made pastries, sweet soups, and the palace concubines dressed up with flowers and branches, in order to win a word of praise from His Majesty.

Li Qinhan, who was in charge of the spring banquet, came to the Heqing Hall early in the morning, this was the first time she was in charge of the palace banquet, and she couldn't make any mistakes. Under Li Qinhan's careful arrangement, the spring appreciation banquet was carried out normally.

Today, the Queen Mother changed the normal state of not attending in the past, and deliberately came to the Heqing Hall accompanied by Wu Man. When the Queen Mother arrived, the concubines who were originally chatting also stopped talking and saluted the Queen Mother one after another.

"Queen Mother Jin'an, Eldest Princess An."

The concubines' greetings were amazingly loud, but the Queen Mother didn't care, she came to the seat in the center of the head unhurriedly and sat down, and then looked around and said slowly:

"Get up."

"Yes."

After getting the order of the queen mother, the concubines in the palace got up and sat down, seeing the queen mother sitting on the top seat, the concubines were inevitably disappointed, it seems that His Majesty will not come today.

The banquet was going on in an orderly manner, and the concubines were constantly talking and laughing. Fang Zhiling's seat was closer to Li Qinhan, and Fang Zhiling hesitated again and again but toasted Li Qinhan with a glass of wine.

"The concubine respects the queen."

Taking the wine glass handed by Fang Zhiling, Li Qinhan looked Fang Zhiling up and down.

"Sister Fang's clothes are really beautiful, if this palace remembers correctly, this is the tassel satin that the Chuiyun Kingdom paid tribute to a while ago."

"The queen has good eyesight."

Hearing that the satin on Fang Zhiling's body was a tribute from the Chuiyun Kingdom, the concubines at the banquet couldn't help but sigh.

"The concubine can hear that the tassel satin is a rare treasure, and the annual tribute of the Chuiyun Kingdom is only ten horses, and the concubine is a good blessing."

"Yes, Your Majesty has instructed the Internal Embroidery Bureau to use fringed satin to make a few good clothes for the concubine Niangniang, but the sisters don't have this blessing."

"The noble concubine is the eldest daughter of the Fang family, and she is favored by His Majesty."

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Concubines, you and I are saying every word, and the meaning of the words is self-evident. Fang Zhiling deliberately looked at Li Qinhan, but Li Qinhan was still drinking there. Li Qinhan's bearing made Fang Zhiling deeply admired, a woman who can do this level is either to keep her status and dignity, or she doesn't care about Your Majesty at all, let alone who the king's favor falls on?

"Auntie, this palace sees that the flowers in the imperial garden are blooming very beautifully today, so my aunt might as well go with this palace to take a look."

Wu Man couldn't stand the women in the palace talking nonsense the most on weekdays, she could see that this group of women was planning to make a stumbling block between Li Qinhan and Fang Zhiling today, so it was okay not to watch such a scene.

"Man'er's proposal is very good, Qin Han."

"Imperial sister-in-law."

"You are here to chat with them, and the mourning family and Man'er go to the Imperial Garden."

"It's windy outside, so be careful."

"It's out of the way."

After Wu Man and the Queen Mother left, the Heqing Hall became lively again.

During the banquet, a concubine dressed in pure white palace clothes got up and toasted Li Qinhan, who was the princess sent by Hua Ningguo, Shi Jieya.

"A cup of Jie Ya Jing to the queen."

Seeing that a concubine toasted to him, Li Qinhan had to take the wine glass and drink it all.

"The queen has a lot of wine."

Shi Jieya admired Li Qinhan's alcohol consumption while not forgetting to drink the residual wine in her cup, and her behavior attracted the dissatisfaction of many concubines.

"What's wrong with Concubine Shi today? On weekdays, the sisters have never seen you so earnest to anyone, and when the queen mother came, Concubine Shi's sister seemed to have changed as if she had changed. ”

The concubine who said this was an old man in the palace, who had served Wei Zong for five years, and had a prominent position in the family.

"Zhao Guifei's words are really interesting, sister, I respect the queen and the queen, but my sister did something wrong?"

The drunkenness on Shi Jieya's face became more and more obvious, and Li Qinhan didn't want to care too much when she saw this scene.

"Come on, Concubine Shi is drunk, help her back to the palace to rest."

"Yes."

"Queen Xie, the concubine retires."

Shi Jieya walked out of the Heqing Hall in a few moments with the support of the palace attendants, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became subtle.

Li Qinhan and Fang Zhiling drank by themselves, and no one had the intention of speaking, and the rest of the concubines couldn't guess what the two maidens were thinking, and they couldn't say anything.

Zhao Rou, who had not yet come out of Shi Jieya's words, was already half of her drunkenness at this time, and seeing that the concubines were silent, she, who was a concubine, could only speak first to ease the atmosphere.

"I heard that in a few days, Princess Qianlin and the second lady will enter the palace as officials, and the concubines are here to congratulate the two mothers on the opportunity to get together with their relatives."

"It is naturally a good thing for the palace and Sister Fang's family to enter the palace as officials, but the rules in the palace still have to be observed, and the harem concubines must get the approval of His Majesty and the Queen Mother to see their families, and Sister Zhao's meaning is a little confused."

"It's the concubine's negligence and failure to make it clear, and I hope the queen won't be surprised."

"Sister Zhao is an old man in the palace, how can this palace blame more? Sister Fang, what you said is right? ”

"What the queen said is very reasonable, the sister of the mother and the concubine are all based on their own ability to enter the palace as officials, even if this is already a well-known thing, it is still inevitable to create criticism, for which the concubine is also deeply exhausted."

"The clear ones are self-purifying, and the turbid ones are self-turbid, this palace doesn't believe that there will be a dirty wind in this harem!"

The tone of Li Qinhan's words was a bit majestic, and all the concubines present were shocked, they thought that the queen who had just been canonized was just a soft persimmon, but they didn't expect her to be ruthless.

Li Qinhan and Fang Zhiling sang and harmonized, the meaning of the words could not be more obvious, they were defending their sister and warning the concubines in the palace, if there were bad remarks about Li Qinlin and Fang Qingxi in the palace one day, these two favored mothers would not agree to it first. They entered the palace late, but that doesn't mean they are weak and incompetent women, their mothers are very strong.

This spring feast rang the long bell of another bloody storm in the harem.

The concubines of Heqing Hall chatted hotly, and the scenery on this side of the imperial garden was even more unique.

The scenery of the Imperial Garden is one of the most beautiful in the harem, and the Imperial Garden in February is full of flowers, and the fragrance of flowers spreads, making people want to smell and be intoxicated.

Wu Man and the Queen Mother retired from the palace attendants, and the two supported each other to walk on the path of the imperial garden, but the two who seemed to be close to each other were thinking about their own affairs.

"Man'er, have you been doing nightmares again?"

"Thanks to my aunt's blessing, this palace sleeps peacefully every night."

"If you can do this, the mourning family can rest assured."

"What's wrong with my aunt? What this palace gets today is karma, it has nothing to do with the aunt, why is the aunt so guilty? ”

There was a little more imperceptible bitterness in Wu Man's words, no one could understand what she was thinking, how many people knew about the pain she suffered?

"Man'er, the mourning family is also ashamed of what happened back then, if it weren't for the mourning family, you wouldn't have married in that bitter cold place."

The Queen Mother still remembers that on the day of Wu Man's wedding, there was a heavy rain in the capital that was rare in a century, and the rain flooded hundreds of acres of fertile land outside the capital, and the villagers in the villages along the river were not spared. For a while, the government and the opposition were in turmoil, and the officials said that Wu Man was a lonely star in the sky and could not stay, but fortunately, the monarch of Qiyan Country had welcomed her into Qiyan Country and carried out a canonization ceremony, and Wu Man was spared a difficulty. Everyone thought that Wu Man's distant marriage was a disaster for the Eagle Kingdom, but they didn't think that Wu Man would return in three years.

In the final analysis, Wu Man's distant marriage is still due to Wu Zhen's mother, that is, the Empress Dowager Zhang. When the Zhang family took Wu Man to visit the Yan Kingdom, Wu Man inadvertently got acquainted with Jun Qianmo, who was still the prince at the time, and later, Jun Qianmo inherited the throne and wanted to marry Wu Man as his wife.

"Why can't I understand what my aunt said?"

The last thing Wu Man wanted was to hear Zhang mention the events of that year, which was a scar in her heart that could never be erased.

"That's it, since you don't want to hear it, it's hard for the mourning family to say anything."

"My aunt can understand the heart of this palace, and this palace is very grateful."

"Man'er, some things are said by the mourning family not to make you sad, but some words are said by the mourning family to be with you."

"If my aunt wants to mention Fang Qingxi's matter in front of this palace, my aunt doesn't have to speak."

"You won't be happy if the mourning family hasn't said anything, Man'er, that Fang Qingxi is very important to you, and I don't know what her identity is."

"Is it possible that my aunt is confused? Qingxi was just canonized as a third-grade princess by her father a few days ago, what does her aunt think she is? ”

"Fang Qingxi entered the palace as an official, and the mourning family really didn't know which family's interests she represented."

Zhang's words couldn't be more obvious, what she said today was undoubtedly to have a showdown with Wu Man. Fang Qingxi is openly and secretly involved with many forces, which has to make her more vigilant.

"Aunt said with a smile, Qingxi is the daughter of the Fang family, and naturally represents the interests of the Fang family, is it possible that she will die for whom?"

"The mourning family hopes that the mourning family is suspicious, the wind is strong in the garden, the mourning family goes back first, and Man'er is with the mourning family?"

"The palace has to go to the Inner Embroidery Bureau, so I won't accompany my aunt."

Separated from Zhang, Wu Man, accompanied by Liu Fu, walked on the way to the Inner Embroidery Bureau.

"The princess is a little tired?"

Liu Fu noticed that Wu Man's face was a little haggard, and she couldn't help but feel distressed in her heart, and said in her heart that since Wu Man returned to China, most of the affairs in the palace were taken care of by her, and she couldn't help but toss like this even if people were beaten with iron.

"Hongu is fine."

"The princess shouldn't have accompanied the Queen Mother to the Imperial Garden."

Liu Fu felt that if it weren't for what the Zhang family said to Wu Man in the Imperial Garden, Wu Man would not be saddened by this.

"The good show in the Heqing Palace is not used to it, and the aunt is even more reluctant to deal with that group of women. Instead of staying in the palace and smelling the vulgar powder, it is better to come to this imperial garden and smell the flowers. ”

Zhang is the only wife in the harem during the reign of the first emperor, and she is also the queen of the Eagle Kingdom, after the death of the first emperor, she will leave the palace for many years, mostly to avoid the grievances and grievances of the harem.

"Even so, the princess shouldn't have said so much to the Queen Mother."

"She is the queen mother, the highest-ranking woman in the harem, this palace is only one of the many daughters of the father, how dare this palace provoke her?"

Although the Zhang family has the highest status in this palace, most of the power is in the hands of Wu Man, and even Li Qinhan is not easy to ask. Even so, Wu Man still has a lot of respect for these two people, at least on the bright side. She was grateful to these two people from the bottom of her heart, and if it weren't for their incompetence, she wouldn't have gotten the opportunity to take charge of the harem, all thanks to them.