Chapter 112: "Pretending to Be Sick and Competing for Favor"
The bitter cold of winter gradually became cold, and when the first snow fell, Yi Xiangxiang was reading a book with Erlang's legs crossed in Changchun Palace, waiting for Xiao Dan to knock walnuts for her to eat.
Xiao Dan used a small copper hammer to crack open the walnuts, took out the peach kernels inside and put them on a delicate small white jade plate, and Yi Xiangxiang grabbed the peach kernels from the plate and ate them.
This scene reminded Yi Xiangxiang of a stalk, that is, "Can the walnuts that have been caught by the door still replenish the brain"! She remembers laughing out loud in class when she heard her classmates in the back seat talk about it in high school, and she couldn't help but laugh a little at this time.
"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Dan raised his head and saw Yi Xiangxiang laughing, so he asked.
After this period of getting along, Xiao Dan also learned that the queen mother is a good-tempered woman, and there is really nothing wrong with her except for being lazy. And they are also kind to them, and they will not beat and scold at every turn, so gentle that they don't look like a master, but they don't lose the majesty of a high-ranking person.
Yi Xiangxiang: "No, I just thought of some old things." β
"Mother, is she homesick? Changing the mother's mother, she can invite her wife in to meet her. Niangniang is the lord of a palace, and Mrs. is an edict, so no one dares to gossip. "Xiao Dan is intimate and comforting.
After all, Changchun Palace is a very noble existence in the harem, and Yi Xiangxiang can find an excuse if she wants to see the Lin family. Although they can't meet for a long time, no one dares to criticize the occasional summons.
"Well, it's cold and slippery in winter, so let's talk about it later." Yi Xiangxiang felt that she was cold, and the whole world was cold.
Before Xiao Dan could say anything, Yingdong ran in and said, "Niangniang, Niangniang!" It's snowing! This is the first snow of the year! β
So Xiao Dan saw his queen master get up from the beauty couch, put on his shoes and ran out. She had no choice but to get up quickly, take off the fox fur cloak from the red sandalwood hanger and chase it out.
Snowflakes fall lightly from the sky and hit the small red maple leaves, which is quite cool.
The castle was gradually covered with a layer of white, and the small snowflakes became bigger and bigger, and soon there was snow on the floor.
Yi Xiangxiang was very excited, she didn't know why she was excited, she only knew that there was an unprecedented sense of satisfaction overflowing from her heart. She walked forward on the thin snow, marking her footprints on the blue-brick slabs.
She turned to look at the footprints she had stepped on, as if looking at where she had come.
Step by step, she retreated, getting farther and farther away from the road she had come......
Her footsteps stopped abruptly, and she retreated into a warm embrace.
So she turned around and saw Zhao Ziqian's helpless eyes, and the latter said in a deep voice: "It's easy to fall down when you walk backwards!" β
Yi Xiangxiang didn't care about Zhao Ziqian's preaching, but shouted excitedly: "Zhao Ziqian! It's snowing! β
The palace people waiting around were shocked when they heard this, and the beautiful romance was broken by Yi Xiangxiang's direct call to the emperor's name. But what they didn't expect was that this Ninety-Five Supreme was not angry, but was rarely happy.
"Well, it's snowing!"
The snowflakes gradually dyed their black hair white......
There is an old story that as long as you watch the snow with your loved one at the beginning of the snow, you will be happy together forever.
Yi Xiangxiang didn't know who she would be with forever, but she was very happy at this moment.
The next day, Cining Palace.
"Yesterday, a mourning family heard from my grandmother that you sent another batch of gold, silver, and charcoal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs? There is no need to be so extravagant, the price of silver charcoal is high, and it should be close to the Holy Imperial Palace and the Imperial Study. β
It was the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan who spoke, she had originally become a cold woman because of her son's death, but she became warm because of Yi Xiangxiang's cold and warm for a while.
Now there are two queen mothers in the harem, but because the queen mother of Xiaoduan is not the holy mother today, this Cining Palace is not as lively as Ci'an Palace. Although the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan will not be neglected, in addition to asking for an order, she is also regarded as the master of no one in the palace.
But Yi Xiangxiang, the queen, never favors one over the other, and all good things are close to Cining Palace.
Yi Xiangxiang yawned secretly: "Don't worry, the queen mother, the supply of the Qian'an Palace and the imperial study is definitely sufficient!" Moreover, the batch of gold and silver charcoal you used is a share of the concubines, not added by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so it is not extravagant. It's so cold in winter, you can't rely on the earth dragon alone! β
She really thinks that the old man of the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan, don't freeze in the winter.
"Huh? Then don't you have no silver charcoal in the palace? Empress Dowager Xiaoduan asked with a frown.
She saw Yi Xiangxiang's yawn, she really hadn't paid attention to it before, but she didn't expect this little girl to be very sincere. But thinking that the little girl had given her her share, what would happen if she froze? Only then did he frown.
"Queen Mother, you don't know, didn't I open a restaurant before, and I have a lot of self-esteem! I asked Qing Xuan to take the silver and go outside the palace to buy a batch of them for personal use, and this saint is also approved! Don't worry, my Changchun Palace also has a room for gold and silver charcoal! If you don't have enough here, let Mama pick it up, it's enough! Yi Xiangxiang said wittily, and patted her little chest by the way.
The silver charcoal in Changchun Palace is not extinguished for a day, Yi Xiangxiang sent charcoal to Cining Palace, this taking care of the elderly is just one of the sayings, she is also afraid that others will gossip about her extravagance with charcoal, so she paid for it with a few high-ranking extravagant ones.
In fact, there is no shortage of utensils in the royal family, but the natural disasters in Meizhou have been worse in the past two years, and the palace has set an example by tailoring. Some of the things used by Yi Xiangxiang were not taken from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but no one criticized them.
The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan understood what she meant, and couldn't help but say: "Okay, you can use it!" If you have filial piety, then I'll laugh at it? She also changed her name.
Yi Xiangxiang nodded frequently: "Accept it." "The expression is very mischievous.
Today, there are many official duties of the saint, and after asking for peace, he left in a hurry, because now there are only the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan and the Queen sitting on the top of Cining Palace. The concubines don't know when they became so close, but most of them didn't dare to say more.
Since Hu Jieyu and Li Meiren pulled each other in the imperial garden, causing the queen to be reprimanded by the Empress Dowager Xiao'an of Ci'an Palace, the palace concubines have clamped their tails and behaved, for fear of accidentally becoming the queen's punching bag.
How did they know that Yi Xiangxiang didn't need to be angry at all, so she wasn't angry.
The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan was able to sit on the throne of the queen back then, mainly relying on her brains. She chatted with Yi Xiangxiang enthusiastically, and naturally she didn't forget to take care of the other people sitting below, so she also talked to Lin Zhimeng, Kang Ling and others.
Yi Xiangxiang had little interest in their conversation, and emptied herself.
The most annoying thing in winter is to get up and say goodbye, in the days when Yi Xiangxiang couldn't wait to lie in bed all day, she was no longer satisfied with the first goodbye. So, at this time, she silently played Xiao Jiujiu to see how to pretend to be sick.
"Mother? Empress? Concubine Kang is talking to you? Jimei beside Yi Xiangxiang shouted softly.
Yi Xiangxiang came back to her senses from her desertion.
"Concubine Kang, what did you just say? Hongu has been feeling unwell lately, and he is a little dizzy. Yi Xiangxiang deliberately rubbed her temples.
She thought in her heart that it was good that she was in Cining Palace at this time, if this was in the Ci'an Palace of the Empress Dowager Xiao'an, and the other party saw that she didn't pay attention to her niece, then even if she pretended to be uncomfortable, she would have to find an excuse to reprimand her.
Kang Ling was about to speak again, but the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan hurriedly said: "Uncomfortable? Can it be said that the imperial doctor has seen it? β
"Mother Xie cares, it's okay, I think I grew up in the south before, and I can't stand the cold in the north. Since I went to Kyoto, I was a little confused in the winter, but after a while I was fine. β
Yi Xiangxiang replied listlessly, and was ready to sit down at this time, which would be uncomfortable, so as to avoid her invitation.
Sure enough, the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan spoke again: "You are the mother of a country, the master of the middle palace, you have to hold on!" You have a good rest for a month, and the mourning family doesn't have to come over to say goodbye. β
"How can this work......" Yi Xiangxiang excused herself.
"It works, why not!" The Empress Dowager Xiaoduan is very decisive.
So, the final result was that this month, the concubines Lin Zhimeng and Kang Ling took the concubines to the queen mother of the two palaces to ask for peace, and the queen was closed to recuperate, and the palace concubines were exempted from asking for her peace.
Originally, the Empress Dowager Xiao'an of Ci'an Palace was dissatisfied, and she didn't agree in her heart that Yi Xiangxiang didn't come to greet her. But even the Empress Dowager Xiaoduan opened her mouth to let Yi Xiangxiang rest, so how could she, her mother-in-law, pretend to be understanding.
Yi Xiangxiang pretended to be sick and took a month off, not to mention how happy she was.
As soon as Zhao Ziqian heard that Yi Xiangxiang was sick, he threw away his pen and ran to Changchun Palace. As a result, the scene I saw was Yi Xiangxiang holding a plate of yacon fruit and crunching it, and the scene was very weird.
"Xiaodan Xiaodan, close the door quickly!" Yi Xiangxiang saw Zhao Ziqian who broke in, and hurriedly called someone to close the door, for fear that someone would find out that she was not sick.
Xiao Dan naturally hurriedly ordered the little eunuchs to close the door, but he was a little scared in his heart.
The saint shouldn't scold the mother, right?
Niang Niang won't be punished, right?
Xiao Dan said that his little heart will be scared by this queen master one day! I can think of a reason why I am so lame pretending to be sick! And the reason for pretending to be sick is just because I don't want to go to say goodbye!
Qing Xuan was not worried at all, she asked people to add a circle chair to the beauty couch, and Zhao Ziqian sat down.
After he sat down, he paid attention to the imperial doctor standing on the side, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the queen's body?" β
The imperial physician was Wang Yuanzheng, who had a small goatee, and knelt down when he heard the words.
It's really not to say, it's not to say it.
The hospital received news that the queen was unwell, so he, as the hospitalist, naturally came over to check the pulse of the queen. After arriving at Changchun Palace, in addition to finding that the queen mother was a little angry, the spirit was too good!
Now he is very embarrassed, the queen mother is obviously pretending to be sick, what should he say?
"Eh, why did you kneel? Don't embarrass him, I'm not sick, I'm pretending! Yi Xiangxiang's latter sentence was said to Zhao Ziqian.
Her words made Wang Yuanzheng breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she also lifted a sigh of relief for the queen. Not only him, but also in Changchun Palace, except for Yi Xiangxiang himself and Qing Xuan, they were all a little worried.
Zhao Ziqian touched Yi Xiangxiang's forehead and asked, "Is it really okay?" β
Now it was everyone's turn to feel weird......
"It's all right! The imperial doctor said that I was just a little angry, you see, Qing Xuan was very considerate and immediately got me a plate of yacon! Speaking of which, this earth dragon is burning in a charcoal basin, can it not be on fire! Yi Xiangxiang complained.
The charcoal basin of Changchun Palace was set up first, and Yi Xiangxiang felt that her watery skin was about to be roasted into a zombie.
Zhao Ziqian took Yi Xiangxiang's yacon fruit, inserted a piece of it with a skewer and said, "This thing is too cold to eat, eat less!" β
"Okay, you let people get up first! I'm embarrassed to kneel! Yi Xiangxiang pointed to the royal courtyard.
After all, she is the one who pretends to be sick, and it is not good to implicate the innocent.
"Get up!" Zhao Ziqian said to Wang Yuanzheng with a cold face, so frightened that Wang Yuanzheng was still shaking his legs.
However, he also found that when he turned his head to look at the queen again, his face was extremely gentle.
The royal court only heard the saint ask the queen again: "Why are you pretending to be sick?" β
"I don't want to go and say goodbye! It's not necessary to be in winter, you know? Filial piety is not a faΓ§ade, what is the difference between every day and clocking in to work. Besides, your mother doesn't like me either, and it's filial piety if I don't go. Yi Xiangxiang said it as a matter of course, but it made the people around her gasp again.
Wang Yuanzheng wanted to kneel down again.
Zhao Ziqian naturally knew that his mother was embarrassed by Yi Xiangxiang, and frowned when he heard this: "Mother concubine is over there...... I'll go and communicate with her. β
"Don't! Just let it be, if you say anything, she thinks that I instigated it, and it may rebound even more, so let's do it now! Yi Xiangxiang hurriedly stopped.
Zhao Ziqian could only do as she wished.
And from this day on, Yi Xiangxiang cultivated openly, letting the outside "wind and rain" go, and Changchun Palace remained unmoved.
The four old grandmothers sent by Zhao Ziqian handled the palace affairs in the name of Yi Xiangxiang. The queen's orders and arrangements came out of Changchun Palace one by one, but the palace concubines did not see the queen.
This situation lasted for more than ten days, and some people in the harem began to say that the queen was pretending to be sick and wanted to recover the favor she lost a few days ago. Otherwise, why didn't the Yi family go to the palace to visit when they were sick?
In fact, this was also Yi Xiangxiang's mistake, she was afraid that the Lin family would worry, so she sent a letter back to Yi's house early and said that she was pretending to be sick. The Lin family was so angry that he handed over a sign saying that he wanted to visit, but Yi Xiangxiang was afraid of being scolded to death, so he refused to see him!
So many palace concubines began to concoct the same method, and for a while, the manpower of the hospital was overwhelmed.
This gave Changchun Palace a new topic to talk about.
"How did Hu Jieyu come up with it? Imperial Doctor Li is the most upright, and he actually wants to buy him to lie? It's like shooting yourself in the foot! Yingdong handed Yi Xiangxiang a handful of flower scissors and said.
Yi Xiangxiang shouted in the morning that Xiao Dan took people to the imperial garden to fold plums, and was arranging flowers at this time.
She used scissors to cut off the excess part of the plum branch, and said with a smile: "It's not that Zhao Zi is to blame...... Shengshang, after pampering Li Meiren, he stayed in Qian'an Palace, and the big guys were anxious. β
"Then you can't pretend to be sick like a mother! These little palace concubines are really bold, and the atmosphere of the harem is about to be broken! Yingdong said dissatisfiedly.
Qingxuan found a blue glazed vase to arrange flowers for Yi Xiangxiang, and when she came in and heard Yingdong's words, she smiled: "Niangniang pretending to be sick is lazy, and they pretending to be sick are competing for favor, which is different in nature." β
These words made Jimei, who was stirring the charcoal basin with small pliers, turn around: "Then we can also compete for favor!" β
She thinks that if her own mother wants to compete for favor, she will definitely be able to catch it! Because they all found out, the saint is simply obedient to the mother.
Yi Xiangxiang was not interested, and said to Jimei: "The Buddha said, you can't get it, it's because you don't ask for it, and you can't get it if you ask for it, because you ask for it in vain!" β
Then proceed to flower arrangement.
The wind of pretending to be sick in the harem gradually rose, and the words that the queen was pretending to be sick and wanted to redeem Sheng Favor also spread more and more, which made Zhao Ziqian suddenly realize that he took this opportunity to live back in Changchun Palace!
"If you do this, you will really start pretending to be sick in the palace!" Yi Xiangxiang looked at Zhao Ziqian lying beside her, crying and laughing.
Now it's okay, the entire Li Dynasty will think that it is a fact that she pretended to be sick and returned to favor! Two days ago, Yi Ruofu handed in the handwritten letter, and laughed at her for mixing so badly, and actually left her husband by pretending to be sick, and she even refuted it at the time! But now that Zhao Ziqian is lying down like this, he really can't say clearly!
Yi Xiangxiang was speechless and looked at the sky... Flower boards.
Zhao Ziqian didn't care: "Then let them pretend, I won't go." β
Cut, if you have the ability, don't go for the rest of your life! Yi Xiang Xiang belly slander.
But realizing that the words seemed sour, it was because she didn't say it.
"This year's palace banquet, is the Ye Dynasty coming?" Yi Xiangxiang took a full nap at noon, so she was not sleepy now, so she changed the topic and gossiped with Zhao Ziqian.
The dragon girl entered the palace yesterday as the lord of Minghui County, and brought her the news from the Huanxi Pavilion, saying that the Ye Dynasty would come to visit the Li Dynasty this year, and she was already on her way at this time.
The Ye Dynasty was a large country thousands of miles away, located in the southwest of the Li Dynasty. Because of the long distance, the two countries have not dealt with each other once in 800 years.
Zhao Ziqian was not surprised at all that Yi Xiangxiang could receive the news: "Well, the person who came is the prince of the vast country, Yesheng." β
The surname of the Ye Dynasty is "Night", and their original country name is the Night Dynasty. Later, their national teacher said that the word night means darkness, so they changed the name of the country to Ye Dynasty.
Yi Xiangxiang was speechless, it turns out that throughout the ages, everyone loves to play "homophonic stalks".
Yesheng? The name acquisition is quite non-mainstream!
Well? Night Song?
Yi Xiangxiang laughed!
"It's also very interesting to choose the name of the Night Emperor." Yi Xiangxiang smiled and shared with Zhao Ziqian her understanding of the name of the prince of the Ye Dynasty.
Zhao Ziqian smiled when he heard this, and lifted the quilt to Yi Xiangxiang and said, "I don't know if it's a night sheng song, but the prince of night sheng is here to move the rescuers." β
"Oh? What's going on? Yi Xiangxiang was very interested in this, and she didn't have the consciousness that the harem couldn't interfere in politics at all.
"The waters of the Wuhan Sea have risen, and Sanssouci Island is eyeing the territory of the Ye Dynasty." Zhao Ziqian did not hide Yi Xiangxiang.
The Wuhan Sea is the largest ocean on the continent, and it is boundless. The water of the Grand Canal of the Li Dynasty flowed through several prefectures and counties along Kyoto, and then flowed into the Ye Dynasty in Nanzhou, the third prefecture under Jizhou.
After that, it passed through the area of the Ye Dynasty and merged into the Wuhan Sea.
Sanssouci Island is in the center of the Wuhan Sea, and the islanders are a country of their own.
Outsiders prefer to call it Sanssouci Island, and they set up their own country as Sanssouci Country.
Yi Xiangxiang can understand this kind of eyeing, in the past two years, there have been continuous heavy rains in summer and snowstorms in winter, and it is normal for the sea level to rise.
"He wants us to help him expel Sanssouci Island?" Yi Xiangxiang asked a question with an obvious answer.
Zhao Ziqian propped up his body with one hand and asked, "That's right, what do you think?" β
"Let's not do anything about killing a thousand knives, if Sanssouci Island is in danger of destroying the island, it must be a desperate fight! Ye Chao has a lot of land, what can he do if he divides a habitat? She felt that Ye Chao was really stingy.
"If Sanssouci Island surrenders, the Ye Dynasty will not accept it, the problem is that they still want to maintain their rule. If you want other people's things, but you don't want to bow your head, how can there be such a good thing? Zhao Ziqian's words were disdainful.
Sanssouci Island wants to enter the Ye Dynasty, if they can pay tribute and pay taxes, the Ye Dynasty will not let them enter.
Yi Xiangxiang also agreed with Zhao Ziqian's words, in fact, in the final analysis, it was just that the lord of Sanssouci Island didn't want to be subservient, to put it bluntly, he was selfish.
"Sanssouci Island is just an island country, and the Ye Dynasty is still afraid that they won't be able to fight?" Yi Xiangxiang asked with a yawn.
"If you want to fight, there will be damage, Ye Sheng wants us to cooperate on the surface, but it's just to ask for stability, let's not stab us in the back." Zhao Ziqian explained to Yi Xiangxiang.
If the Ye Dynasty and Sanssouci Island fight, the Ye Dynasty sandwiched in the middle will naturally worry that the Li Dynasty in the rear will come to catch cicadas for the praying mantis, and this time Yesheng is here to seek reassurance.
Yi Xiangxiang showed a sly smile: "Then you have to slaughter him well!" β
"Well, and the latest news is that Nangong Ge, the young island master of Sanssouci Island, is also here." Zhao Ziqian also smiled slyly.
However, after Yi Xiangxiang heard the name of the young owner of Sanssouci Island, the focus was not on whether people would come or not, but smiled more exaggeratedly and said:
"Night and night, fate entangled!"
Forgive her for accidentally thinking of Tanmei!
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