On the afternoon of the fourth day of the fifth month of the ninth year of Emperor Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an passed down an edict that he was banned for a full month and Baolin for one month, and Yan Meiren was fined for half a year.

That night, in the Yinshuang Pavilion, An Xiaowan sat on the bed, crying with her back to Emperor Yong'an.

Concubine An twisted her body, her eyes were red and she said to Emperor Yong'an behind her, "Your Majesty, you punished Yan Meiren and Yue Baolin without listening to the concubine's explanation......"

Emperor Yong'an handed An Xiaowan a clean cotton handkerchief, and persuaded him with kind words, "Wan'er, why do you still help them talk when they bully you like that?" ”

"It's just a little incompatible." An Xiaowan took the handkerchief handed by Emperor Yong'an to wipe her tears, turned around and bowed her head and said, "Besides, the concubine has already punished Yue Baolin and punished her for kneeling in the imperial garden for two hours." It's all punished like this, and she won't do it again next time......"

"Hmph," Emperor Yong'an snorted coldly, "You don't know that these two people in the Ruyi Hall a few days ago were embarrassed by you?" ”

Hearing this, An Xiaowan put down the handkerchief in her hand to wipe her tears, stroked the left side of her face with her hand, and choked up, "Actually, what they said is right, the concubine is a saltless posture and does not deserve the emperor's favor." ”

Emperor Yong'an raised his hand to wipe away An Xiaowan's tears and said, "As long as I like it, what's the matter with them?" Don't cry, if you cry again, your sister Ying is going to be angry with me again, I'm really afraid of you two sisters. ”

Hearing Lingxi's name, An Xiaowan's slender and smooth hand put on Emperor Yong'an's wrist and begged, "Your Majesty, can you tell Sister Ying about this." She has been busy eating and sleeping for the Dragon Boat Festival palace banquet these days, and if she knew about it, she would have to worry about her concubines again. ”

"I won't tell you Sister Ying, but you are not allowed to cry anymore."

"Hmm." An Xiaowan nodded, and agreed.

Emperor Yong'an hugged An Xiaowan into his arms and sighed, "I know your character best, innocent, kind and timid, if it weren't for Yue Baolin's words being too ugly, how would you punish her to kneel." I said that if I want to protect you, I must protect you from being bullied in the slightest......"

An Xiaowan lay on Emperor Yong'an's chest, and her little hand slowly slid along Emperor Yong'an's chest with a golden dragon embroidered with gold thread, "Your Majesty, if you have this time, the concubine will die again, and it will be worth it......"

In the Lingyan Palace, Lingxi was lying crookedly on the bamboo couch, squinting lightly, holding the half-moon-shaped Hanshan Jade in the palm of his hand, and his face showed a hint of comfort.

On the small table next to the bamboo couch, there is an ice box. Qiaozhu was standing behind the ice box, holding a small fan and fanning it gently.

Slightly cool, the cool air with lily fragrance was fanned onto Lingxi's body, relieving the heat of early summer.

The lotus leaf stood aside, by the candlelight in the palace lamp, and was playing a new line.

At the Dragon Boat Festival Palace Banquet, Lingxi wanted to wear the piece of jade on his body. But it turned out that Qiaozhu hit the jewel blue and the color of the clothes that Lingxi wanted to wear, so the lotus leaf hit a powder blue one.

Hanyu stood in front of Lingxi, and told how An Xiaowan met Yan Meiren and Yue Baolin in the imperial garden during the day, and how An Xiaowan was wronged and cried and ran back to the Lingyan Hall to find Lingxi, and what the fifth princess said to her when she entered the hall, she told Lingxi about 1510 like pouring beans.

After listening, there was silence in the Lingyan Hall for a long time.

Just when Hanyu thought that Lingxi had fallen asleep, Lingxi opened his eyes lazily and said loudly, "You go back and wait for Concubine Wan." ”

Han Yu was blessed and retreated.

Lingxi sighed lightly, and sat up straight with the hand that Lotus Ye had outstretched.

Feeling the slightest coolness on his face, Lingxi asked thoughtfully, "What do you think?" ”

Lotus Ye took Luozi in her hand again, and said with low eyes, "The slave maid thinks that the fifth princess is a child's nature, and the threshold is high, so it may be just to give Wangui Concubine a wake-up call." ”

Qiaozhu slowly shook his right hand like a beckoning cat, shook his head, and said, "The slave doesn't think so." Although the fifth princess is young, she has always been thoughtful. On that day, when the emperor stayed in the Lingyan Palace, the five princesses obviously did not give up and wanted to go to the palace to greet the mother, but when they saw Wan Guifei coming from Yinshuang Pavilion, they led Wan Guifei to the imperial garden......"

"Yes...... Lingxi played with the jade pendant in his hand, raised his eyebrows, and said, "The fifth princess is getting more and more wrong......

"Especially today," Hanyu continued, "the five princesses ran in and out, and the time was all stepping in front of Wan Guifei, as if they were deliberately ......."

The cool air in the ice box continued to fall on Lingxi's body with Qiaozhu's light fan, which suddenly made Lingxi feel cold.

After a moment's silence, Lingxi stood up and said to Qiao Zhuzi, "Let Cailan pay more attention." ”

After speaking, he took the hand of the lotus leaf and walked towards the dormitory.

For the fifth princess, Lingxi didn't want to guess her with the heart of an adult, after all, she was only a six-year-old child.

Lingxi prefers to believe that what the five princesses have done is just an unintentional coincidence.

But is it really just a coincidence?

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the ninth year of Yong'an, Lingxi was dressed up under the service of lotus leaves and Qiaozhu.

She wore a dark pink and reddish palace dress embroidered with colorful silk threads and gold threads on the waist of auspicious clouds and five-tailed phoenixes, and a light pink wide-bodied gauze embroidered with peony flowers. On the outside of the gauze robe, a seven-foot-long colorful brocade shawl was pulled.

On the head is a high Wangxian nine hairpins, in addition to the hairpin on the left side of the hairpin, but also in the middle of the hairpin hairpin made of gold, inlaid with red and green gems of the seven-tailed phoenix. The phoenix's mouth is tied to a string of tassels with blue crystals as pendants, and the tassels hang down from the bun, just right to embellish between the delicately painted willow eyebrows of the spirit rhino. On the right side is a tassel that reaches to the side of the ear, and is made of red gold in the style of a peony flower.

Emerald and gemstone earrings fell on the small ears, a string of pigeon-blood-red ruby necklaces were worn on the thin white neck, and a green jade bracelet of good color was worn on the white right wrist.

After packing up, Lingxi came to the Baohe Hall early.

Sitting in the inner hall of the Baohe Palace, she drank tea while listening to the lotus leaf tell her about the arrangement of the palace people.

As soon as Shen Shi arrived, the relatives were led by the little eunuchs and began to enter the palace.

Lotus Ye stood at the door of the inner and outer halls, watching the situation in the outer hall attentively.

At the second moment of Shen Shi, Lotus Ye walked to Lingxi's side and said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, the relatives have arrived." ”

Lingxi nodded, let the lotus leaf pour himself a cup of herbal tea, and raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Next are the princes and the second prince." ”

After taking a bite of the herbal tea in the cup, Lingxi suppressed some of the apprehension that rose in his heart.

Halfway through the Shen period, Lotus Ye came back and said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, King Ning and the second prince have already brought Princess Ning and the second princess here, and King Ping and King Rui have not come......"

Disappointment rose in Lingxi's heart, and after a sigh, he put the teacup in his hand back on the carved table. She thought that she would be able to see King Rui at this palace banquet, but she didn't want to wait in vain.

Lotus Ye knew what Lingxi was thinking, and after whispering a few words of comfort, he stood at the door of the hall again.

In the outer hall of the Baohe Palace, the concubines in the harem began to bring the young princes and princesses into the palace.

Although Lingxi was sitting in the inner hall, he still smelled a lot of spices and smelled from the outside, mixed with a little tea fragrance.

When there were still two quarters of an hour before the unitary time, Lotus Ye went to Lingxi's side and said, "Niangniang, the concubines in the harem have almost arrived, but Concubine Rou has not yet arrived." ”

Lingxi raised his eyes to look at the incense clock burning beside him, and a sneer appeared on his face.

Traditionally, the order of admission to the palace banquet is first humble and then respectful, and the unitary time is the time when the emperors and queens of the past dynasties attend hand in hand.

Concubine Rou pressed the time to enter the table so late, just to let the concubines and relatives in the palace see, if there is no queen in the middle palace, she Rou Guifei is the most powerful concubine in the harem.

Thinking of this, Lingxi stood up and smiled at Lotus Ye, "Help Bengong see if the makeup is neat?" ”

The lotus leaf looked around the Lingxi carefully, raised his hand to help the Lingxi tidy up the placket and shawl, and helped the Fengchai on the hairpin of the Lingxi, and then nodded solemnly, indicating that it was okay.

Lingxi held the hand of the lotus leaf, went out from the middle of the inner hall, and stood at the door of the outer hall.

As Xiao Dezi sang, "Ye Guifei has arrived!" The humming in the hall stopped just right, and the family members of Xin Concubine, who were sitting closest to the temple gate, had already stood up.

Lingxi held the hand of the lotus leaf, moved the lotus step lightly, and stepped on the red carpet in the palace shoes inlaid with gold and jade. Ying Ying moved, Zhu Cui Bu shook and touched, clanging. The pink gauze shrouded in the wide skirt behind her, as if she were stepping on auspicious clouds.

Lingxi straightened her waist, with a warm smile on her face, and did not pay too much attention to the people who bowed down on both sides to ask for peace, until she walked to the place where Ye Jinkao was sitting, she stopped, and from a distance of two zhang, stretched out her slender jade hand to help Ye Jinkao, and said with a smile, "Ye Shangshu, please get up." ”

After Ye Jinkao thanked him and stood up straight, Lingxi bowed slightly at Ye Jinkao. Then he turned slightly to the relatives who bowed behind him and smiled, "Everyone is your own family, don't be polite, get up." ”

After everyone thanked him and stood up straight, Lingxi turned around and walked up three steps holding the lotus leaf's hand.

On the top of the steps, on the left and right sides sat King Ning and the second prince respectively. Lingxi and the two of them bowed their heads to each other, which was regarded as saluting each other.

Further inside, sitting are the concubines and princesses in the harem.

Lingxi stood in the first position on the left hand of the main seat, and after letting the concubines who asked her to sit down, she also sat down with great grace.

Concubine Ren sat under Lingxi's hand, looked at Lingxi's clothes, and said with a smile, "I heard that you came here early, why did you come in now?" ”

Lingxi turned slightly to look at Concubine Ren, and said with a smile, "The palace has come early, but you can sit in it and hide idle." ”

"I thought you were going to be like the one on the other side," Concubine Ren smiled as she glanced at the opposite side of Lingxi, "and it will take another quarter of an hour to arrive." ”

Lingxi raised his hand and held the bead hairpin on the hairpin, and said with a smile, "This palace is only the position of the concubine, don't you dare to step on the point of the imperial concubine and go inside......"

As he was talking, Lotus Ye touched Lingxi's back on the back of Lingxi, lowered his head and whispered, "Niangniang, King Ping and King Rui are here." ”

Lingxi's hand on the bead hairpin paused, and a pair of beautiful eyes swept towards the door of the Baohe Palace.