Chapter 16: The Emperor Becomes a Gardener in the Imperial Garden

After a wonderful encounter in the Imperial Garden, Yang Hanyue was afraid that people would find out, so she followed the original road and rushed back like a thief.

Yang Hanyue gradually came to the destination, the Cairen Palace, in a rapid speed, and then rushed into the room and quickly closed the door. Rushing back here, she bent over and panted: "Fortunately, no one found out, God bless." ”

After the mood stabilized, Yang Hanyue walked to the dresser and sat down, took off the tassels and earrings worn on the head and put them in the jewelry box, and inadvertently found a piece of jade pendant in the jewelry box, picked it up and took a closer look, this jade pendant is pale yellow all over, the jade pendant itself is delicate and flexible to the touch, at a glance it is the best Hetian jade carefully carved, the pattern of the jade pendant itself is also extremely elegant, vaguely looks like a dragon, but it does not look like a dragon in the subtleties, it seems to be a python.

Yang Hanyue suddenly felt that the identity of the cynical boy brother must not be simple, as the saying goes, five claws are dragons, four claws are pythons, and pythons can be used as jade pendant ornaments, and the identity will not be simple, she played with the jade pendant given to her by Li Shimin, and muttered: "Li Jianwei, who are you?" Why every time I get along with you, I can feel the extraordinary power and domineering in you. ”

But this feeling seemed to be familiar to her, and in her vague memory, the familiar and unfamiliar big brother gave her the same feeling of pampering and meticulous care.

Not far away, a pair of dark eyes were watching her every move.

The wives got up and dressed up, put on fresh and elegant dance dresses, and hoped that they would be the best.

Yang Hanyue and Cheng Ziqing came to Feng Terrace together with a smile and a smile to conduct the last round of palace examinations.

Yang Hanyue and all the royal wives followed the female official in charge in an orderly manner, and looked up slightly to see that at the top of the palace sat the four concubines headed by Wei Guifei, they were Wei Guifei and Yan Xianfei, and there was only a lack of Concubine Shu and Concubine De on this unattainable throne.

Jinyu, who was beside the eldest grandson Huiyan, walked in with an oracle, everyone knelt down one after another, and Jinyu read out the content of the edict: "The body of the palace is hugging, and the matter of choosing a concubine is handed over to Concubine Wei and Concubine Yan Xian." ”

Wei Guifei took the order, Jinyu also left, and Wei Guifei sat down in the position again, of course, this harem is headed by the eldest grandson queen, followed by Wei Guifei and Yan Xian, whose status is the most noble.

"The courtiers see the noble concubine Niangniang, the virtuous concubine Niangniang." All the wives walked in unison and stepped forward to salute.

"Flat."

"I heard that one of the new royal wives is Yang Yushi's daughter and versatile, and I don't know who it is?" Concubine Yan Xian smiled and leaned back in her seat.

"Courtier Yang Hanyue see the noble concubine Niangniang, the virtuous concubine Niangniang is a thousand years old." Yang Hanyue cautiously stepped forward and saluted, and gave an extremely thoughtful salute to the two people on the throne.

"Yes, I know the rules."

"Raise your head and let Hongu take a look." Yang Hanyue raised her head slightly, and her beautiful eyes were half-hung for the relationship of etiquette, which added to the style.

Wei Guifei was taken aback, the woman in front of her was beautiful and moving, and the delicate rouge gouache was lightly smeared on her face, but it was just the icing on the cake on her face.

Wei Guifei walked down from His Majesty, circled around Yang Hanyue non-stop, pinched her jaw, and pretended to mention the matter of the court of the Sui Dynasty casually: "How does this palace look at this sister, who seems to be familiar with Emperor Yang's Lady Xuanhua, who only knows how to seduce His Majesty and charm the Lord because she looks a little bit good." ”

All the royal wives looked at it, not to mention how happy they were, and they could finally watch Yang Hanyue, the so-called first eldest daughter of Chang'an, make a fool of herself, and Zheng Shanxue smiled from time to time on the side.

Yang Hanyue raised her head and looked directly at Wei Guifei without fear or arrogance: "Guifei Niangniang, the difference in this statement, Chen Dynasty Chen Shubao is mediocre and will sing with his concubines every night, the capital was broken Emperor Yang saw Chen Hui'er beautiful and accepted as a side concubine and respected as a lady after ascending the throne, only because of the following crimes, she was hated by Queen Xiao, which led to her many miscarriages for no reason and finally fell out of favor, such a Mrs. Xuanhua is just a poor princess who died in the country, how can she charm the emperor." ”

"Well, that's pretty sharp." Wei Guifei was almost refuted by Yang Hanyue.

Concubine Yan Xian hurriedly glanced at Concubine Wei's personal maid Xia Aya, and Xia Aya stepped forward to support Concubine Wei and returned to her seat: "Sister, there's no need to be angry, let's enjoy the song and dance!" ”

The wives finished dancing one after another, and it was Cheng Ziqing's turn, she looked at Yang Hanyue in fear, and Yang Hanyue nodded at her.

Cheng Ziqing, with Yang Hanyue's encouragement, twisted his body confidently, and his every move was so charming and charming.

It was Yang Hanyue's turn, Zheng Shanxue knew that her dancing skills were not bad, so she repeated her trick to look at the royal wife next to her, and Yang Hanyue fell to the ground as she expected.

Zheng Shanxue knelt down and saluted: "Guifei Niangniang, the courtiers want to report Yang Hanyue for stealing royal things." He took out the jade pendant and handed it to Xia Aya beside Wei Guifei.

"This was discovered by the courtiers from Yang Hanyue's dresser yesterday." Zheng Shanxue carefully observed Wei Guifei's reaction.

Yang Hanyue clearly remembered that this jade pendant was locked in a jewelry box, how could it appear here.

Wei Guifei stroked the texture of the jade pendant, this jade pendant was clearly given to him by Li Yuan in order to commend Li Shimin's outstanding military exploits and reflect the special right of Tiance Mansion to mint coins, and he has always worn this jade pendant with him, how could it be in her hands.

Pretended to look at the jade pendant: "It is indeed a royal thing, Yang Hanyue, what else do you have to say." ”

"This jade pendant was given to the courtier by a friend of the courtier."

"The evidence is like a mountain, could it be that this palace will wronged you, and someone will drag Yang Hanyue down and kill him." Wei Guifei gave an order, and the two chamberlains next to her came up to escort Yang Hanyue.

"Wait! My sister is not in good health, Your Majesty is very worried, if there is a bloody disaster at this time, I am afraid it will not be conducive to the health of the Emperor, if Your Majesty blames it, it will be bad. When Concubine Yan Xian heard this, she stepped forward to stop her and admonished Concubine Wei.

Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense, Wei Guifei calmed down her good mood: "The palace is also lacking, so this matter will be handled by my sister." ”

Wei Guifei left accompanied by Xia Aya, and Concubine Yan Xian stood up and ordered: "Spread the decree of the palace: remove Yang Hanyue's status as the royal wife and send her to the court." ”

Seeing this situation, Cheng Ziqing stepped forward and knelt down to salute: "The courtiers are willing to be punished together with Han Yue." ”

"Well, sisterhood is deep." Nei waited to take Yang Hanyue and Cheng Ziqing down together.

The palace maid in charge took them to the court, and although it was a place for the palace people to serve, it was also cleaned up and tidy.

Yang Hanyue and Cheng Ziqing changed their clothes, she held Cheng Ziqing's hand tightly and apologized sincerely: "Ziqing, I'm sorry, I know you care a lot about choosing a concubine this time." ”

"Han Yue, my father selected me from the family to participate in the selection of concubines from the family for the benefit of the family, and he didn't ask me about my own wishes at all."

She didn't expect that Cheng Ziqing was just a weight to enhance the power of the family, which was probably the sorrow of a woman.

"Hanyue, I want to thank you very much." Seeing Yang Hanyue's guilt from the bottom of her heart, Cheng Ziqing comforted her.

After changing their clothes, the two were taken to the aunt Mo Yan in charge of the court to be reprimanded.

"From today onwards, you are no longer a lady of a family or a new royal wife, from today onwards you are a slave."

"Yes, follow my aunt's teachings." Yang Hanyue and Cheng Ziqing lowered their heads slightly and curtsied.

"You two go and wash that pile of clothes, be careful, it's the queen's phoenix robe that is damaged, that's a capital crime." Mo Yan pointed to a mountain of clothes and commanded sharply.

Yang Hanyue sat down and washed her clothes seriously, and in a short time, the clothes had been washed cleanly, and she sorted out every piece of clothing and hung it on the bamboo pole.

Mo Yan saw that Yang Hanyue was quite neat when he did his work, and he was also meticulous when sorting out his clothes: "You sorted out these clothes, which is very good." ”

The palace maid next to her was also very red-eyed, they had never seen the aunt in charge of doing so much work all day and night, and Yang Hanyue began to act as a newcomer.

Taking advantage of the time when Yang Hanyue lowered her head to work, a palace maid stepped forward to knock down the bamboo pole, and the sound alarmed the aunt Mo Yan, who came over and looked at the mess in front of her, and asked everyone present loudly: "Who made it like this." ”

The palace maids stood neatly, and they said in unison: "It's this new Yang Hanyue." ”

Before Yang Hanyue could react, Mo Yan had already walked in front of her: "I just praised you a few words, and you are proud of yourself." ”

"I don't ...... either" Cheng Ziqing saw that Yang Hanyue seemed to be about to refute, and pulled her sleeve.

Yang Hanyue suddenly reacted, isn't this the rule of survival in the palace, and stepped forward a few times to salute: "Yes, this is the fault of the slave." ”

"That's good, go clean the imperial garden, don't eat until you finish sweeping."

The palace maids next to them began to be complacent, and they had to keep their eyes open to recognize who was the eldest sister here in their one-third of an acre.

"Yes, slave and maid obey."

Gradually, the last bit of the sun's brilliance in the imperial garden fell on the earth, and perhaps the relationship between the last bit of brilliance was particularly dazzling, and Yang Hanyue was busy with the hot sun. Finally, the last bit of light of the sun was exhausted, and Yang Hanyue was also busy for two or three hours in a row.

Yang Hanyue was already so tired that her back hurt, thinking of who had caused her to fall to such a point today, she scolded and said to herself: "Li Jianwei, what are you from, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have fallen asleep at this time." ”

Yang Hanyue was also so tired at this time that her chest was pressed against her back, and all that was left was the strength to scold a few words to get angry.

Li Shimin was holding the mentality of trying it out at this time, so he specially changed into a set of more civilian brocade robes, and wandered around the imperial garden to see if Yang Hanyue, a reckless girl, would come out to wander around in the face of the ban, and the appearance of a familiar figure was indeed as he expected.

walked over quietly and patted her on the shoulder: "Han Yue, shouldn't you stop at the Cairen Palace at this time?" ”

Although Li Shimin's elusiveness, Yang Hanyue is not the first time to see it, and now the whole garden is silent, suddenly a pair of hands stretched out and patted her shoulder, which still scared her a lot: "It's you!" It's not your fault, you gave me a jade pendant in a good way, they said that it was the royal thing that convicted me of stealing the royal thing, and now not only is there no hope of leaving the palace, but there is no hope of clearing the charge. ”

Li Shimin didn't expect that the gift he gave her at will turned out to be her fault, and a little distress spread in his heart, and he was even more appreciative of her being able to maintain this rare calmness at this moment.

"Who the hell are you? The last time I went to the palace to participate in the hunt, I saw that the queen mother was very polite and polite to you. ”

Li Shimin was speechless, he didn't know how to answer, he couldn't tell her the truth, he didn't want others to know his identity and fear him, especially for a kind and generous girl like her.

Although the heroes who followed Li Shimin's southern and northern wars were generally older than him, but the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces except for Wei Zheng, the only one who was very different in age compared to him was Li Jing, who opened his eyes and said nonsense: "I! It is Li Jing's son. ”

"Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo, His Majesty calls General Li Jing, the first military god of this dynasty." Yang Hanyue nodded slightly and whispered to herself.

"I didn't think you knew a lot."

"As for that jade pendant, it was given by the Emperor Taishang, so ......"

"Han Yue, this imperial garden is so dirty and tiring, don't do it." Li Shimin snatched the broom in her hand and threw it aside at will.

"If you don't work, I can't make a difference, you are a prominent son, of course you can be excellent." Pick up the broom and continue cleaning.

But thinking that there were still mountains of dirty work, she was too late to work overtime with two hands alone, and she had a good idea to look at the big man in front of her, and pulled Li Shimin to run.

"It's really not practical not to let me work, since you are so kind, why don't you help me carry water, and I have to water these flowers." After that, give him the flat burden that draws water.

Li Shimin couldn't help but smile when he took the flat burden, no one had ever spoken to him in this tone since he could remember. The son of a family who grew up with a golden spoon in his mouth, and now the Tang Emperor, who is full of words, occasionally tries it, and this feeling of being called is not bad.

Although the two worked together, there was still a lot of work to be done, Li Shimin watched her high-intensity labor for several hours in a row, for fear that she would be physically exhausted, walked behind her and knocked her unconscious, she leaned on his shoulder like this, Li Shimin picked her up and went straight to the Manna Palace.

When Wang De saw Li Shimin coming back, he immediately greeted him: "Your Majesty, you can make it easy to find the minions." ”

"Go and tell Huiyan that from today onwards, all the palace maids in the palace do not need to serve in the palaces in the afternoon and can move freely for an hour, and then tell Huiyan to cut the amount of money in the palace and release a batch of elderly and unconscious palace maids to save the cost of the inner palace."

"Yes, the minion obeys."

Carrying her into the inner hall and carefully putting her on the bed, he reviewed the chapter in the outer hall, and after handling the government affairs, Li Shimin walked to the side of the bed and looked at Yang Hanyue in a daze, with a smile on the corner of his mouth and got up and ordered Wang De: "Wang De, find a few palace maids to go to the imperial garden to water the flowers in a while." ”

Early in the morning, Yang Hanyue woke up and found that she was asleep in the room, and her head was very dizzy, and she suddenly remembered that the flowers in the imperial garden had not been watered, and she secretly whispered in her heart that she was miserable, she couldn't care if she was still dizzy, and quickly put on her shoes and went straight to the imperial garden.

It's hard to believe that everything is going on in an orderly manner with the scenery in front of you, how is this possible with your eyes peeled and looking at everything in front of you. This is the result of Li Shimin's instructions to the palace maid.