Empress Cao didn't see them in the main hall, so she led them directly to the apse.

Zhao Lei is a fool who doesn't understand, but Lu Yi won't understand this bit of sophistication.

This shows that Empress Cao did not treat them as foreign ministers, and when she saw them in the apse, it was the treatment that only close people had, and it was generally possible for her own sons and nephews.

The queen was indeed as kind as she had heard before.

Empress Cao looked at Lu Yi with a smile: "I haven't seen you for many years, if I don't say my name and surname, I really don't dare to recognize it." ”

The fourth prince asked curiously, "The queen mother has seen him?" ”

"I've seen it. But at that time he was still young, short and dunton, and he would eat his fingers, and he would not say anything when teasing him. ”

This was a surprise.

Even Lu Yi himself didn't know.

He followed his father and met the emperor, which of course was something he could remember. Most of what Empress Cao said was something from earlier, and he didn't remember it himself.

"The Queen Mother has seen him? Where did you see it? How come we don't know? ”

Empress Cao smiled and nodded Liu Yan's nose: "I didn't have you at that time." At that time, I went with your grandmother to visit your father in Shannan County, and at that time he was inadvertently sick, and it was an epidemic, and your grandmother and I were not at ease, so we rushed to take care of him for a few months, and I met him at that time. ”

Lu Yi was a little distracted.

In Shannan-gun...... At that time, he should have followed his mother, right? His father was out on a campaign, and his mother took him and his brother to stay in Shannan County, which was relatively peaceful after all.

He doesn't have a memory of that time, when he was too young, three years old? Four-year-old? I tried my best to recall the events of that time, but I didn't have many memories of my mother, but I remember that there was a pond behind the house where I lived, and there were many reeds growing in the pool, and when the wind blew, the reed leaves rattled.

"You haven't been in Beijing for a few years, I thought you would go to the palace to study, and when I heard Jing'er talk about it, I knew that you were running around all over the world. Sleeping alone outside, no one helps you when you encounter something, I don't know how much suffering I have suffered, if your mother is still there, I don't know how distressed I should be. ”

Lu Yi has always thought that his heart is as hard as iron, but when he heard Queen Cao's words, his eyes were sour for some reason, and he lowered his eyes to hide his gaffe: "Thank you for your care." ”

"I heard that you wrote down the events of your travels, and it has been printed into a book?"

In front of Queen Cao, Lu Yi felt a little embarrassed: "I just wrote down some interesting things from my travels." ”

Liu Jing added a sentence on the side: "We brought a sample book over, and the queen mother also helped to see if there was anything inappropriate to add and change." ”

"Okay, go back, I'll ask Yingluo to read me a few paragraphs, if you write well, you will be rewarded, if you don't write well, you will also be punished."

Queen Cao is so funny and kind, not at all like the "queen" that Zhao Lei imagined before she came, but like a neighbor's parent, there is no shelf at all.

Queen Cao didn't snub Zhao Lei, although she hadn't seen it before, but she didn't say a few words, and Zhao Lei didn't think Queen Cao was strange and terrible.

In addition to two hostas and a palace flower on Queen Cao's head, there was no other makeup, her hand was stretched out, and there was only a jade bracelet on her wrist. Zhao Lei was nervous, but now he also spoke.

Speaking of the fact that he was almost left in the temple, Empress Cao asked with a smile: "What did you paint when you were in the temple?" ”

"Painted quite a bit. In the beginning, I went with the old craftsmen who lived on the mountain to see the Buddha statues carved on the mountain and watch them add color to the past Buddha paintings. I'm a person, I can't move when I see a painting, I follow people to ask questions, and I hand over things, which are all Buddhist paintings from dozens or even hundreds of years ago. At that time, people's painting skills and color use were completely different from today's. Later, I helped the temple paint a statue of Guanyin or something, and the painting was not very good, but the host didn't know why, not to say that I had Buddha nature. ”

Empress Cao pursed her lips and smiled.

Although she is not a monk and does not talk about Buddha's mind and Buddha nature, her vision is not comparable to ordinary people.

This Zhao Lei does not lose his pure heart, and there is nothing in his heart except for painting, it can be said that he has not been impregnated by the worldly glitz at all, and this heart is very rare. If the host has to say that this is Buddha nature, it is probably the same quality as what Queen Cao sees, but everyone's statement is different.

In the past few years, the people I have dealt with are all human spirits, and it is rare to meet a simple person, even Lu Yi, who came with him today, is also a rare person who understands, there are actually many smart people in these years, but there are very few people like Zhao Lei.

"Let's stay for dinner at noon, the weather is getting colder and colder, I'm full, my body is warm, and then I'll go to the bookstore to do your business."

Speaking kung fu Yingluo came in from outside, smiled and saluted back: "Niangniang, it's snowing outside." ”

"It's snowing?"

Not only was Empress Cao surprised, but Liu Yan was even more surprised, got up in a hurry, and pushed the window open.

Sure enough, it snowed outside, and the snow flakes fell from the sky one after another, light and silent, no wonder they didn't notice it in the hall.

"This is the first snow of the year, right?" Liu Fang thought for a while: "I remember that the first snow last year was at the end of October, and this year's snow is quite late. ”

"Although it was finally down later." Liu Jing heard Taifu say that he was worried about the drought this winter, and now that it is finally snowing, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief. If there is no rain or snow in the winter, then the drought situation in the beginning of spring is really not optimistic. Now that the snow is falling, it seems that this is still a heavy snowfall, and after Liu Jing breathed a sigh of relief, he began to worry again.

What if there is heavy snowfall? I heard that after two heavy snowfalls in Beijing last year, some people's roofs collapsed, and some poor and helpless people died of cold and starvation.

It's really snowing, and it's worrying if it's not snowing.

Liu Jing looked at the snowflakes outside.

Because of the snow, Empress Cao asked the dining room to send a hot soup dish and told the palace people to serve a bowl of soup for each of them.

"I don't know if you're used to drinking, but drink a little bit to warm up. The snow is slippery, so be careful on the way back from the palace to yourself. ”

The soup was so hot that it was warm from throat to belly.

After eating, Empress Cao instructed Lu Yi and Zhao Lei to say a few words respectively.

"Don't you always vomit with your father, what grudge between father and son can't be resolved? The next time he returns to Beijing, you can talk about it well, and if you have something to say, it's good to open up. ”

Lu Yi replied in a low voice.

Empress Cao said to Zhao Lei again: "I remember that there were still people in your family who also published a painting book, was it your uncle or uncle?" ”

Zhao Lei said: "It's my uncle." ”