In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of the fifth month of the ninth year of Yong'an.

In the past half a month, other concubines have been wearing and wearing at the Dragon Boat Palace banquet, but Lingxi has seen the inside and outside of the Baohe Palace, from the layout to the arrangement of the location, no less than ten times.

In order to ensure that the palace banquet on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival can be carried out smoothly. Don't ask for ingenuity, just seek to be decent and not make mistakes.

On the morning of the fourth day of the fifth lunar month, when he came back from the last inspection in the Baohe Palace, Lingxi's mood was happy.

Sitting on the bamboo couch, Lingxi drank herbal tea that was refreshing and relieved of the heat, and said with a smile, "Everyone is greedy for the back position, and everyone wants to assist in the six palaces, but no one can see the hard work behind this." Just one palace banquet is so troublesome, not to mention more than a dozen palace banquets a year, plus those miscellaneous things. ”

Qiaozhu held a beautiful face exquisite fan in his hand, and said with a smile while fanning Lingxi, "Niangniang, you are the only one who works so hard." In the past, the Zhu family had never done it as personally as you did, and even Concubine Rou did not have the same intentions as you when she started to prepare the palace banquet. They all assign these things to the people below to do, and naturally some people go to supervise the work, and wait until the day before the palace banquet, and then go over to take a look. ”

Lingxi smiled and nodded, "Yes, I attach too much importance to it." ”

"It's worth working hard." The lotus leaf's small hand pinched Lingxi's sore shoulder with moderate strength, and quipped, "The Empress Dowager praised you, and it was worth your hard work these days." ”

"That's natural," Lingxi reached out and took the fan from Qiaozhu's hand, fanning the wind, and said, "The more her old man loves me, the more I don't want her old man to disappoint." ”

As he spoke, Smoke walked in from outside. Behind him were two little palace maids holding vermilion wooden trays in their hands.

Walked in front of Lingxi and hurriedly said, "Niangniang, try these new clothes, tomorrow is the palace banquet, other mothers are dressed up in flowers, you don't even have a piece of clothes that fit." ”

Lotus Ye looked at Hanyan's anxious face, laughed loudly, and said, "Niangniang, look at Hanyan, with a look of resentment." ”

Hearing this, Hanyan raised his head and grimaced at the lotus leaf, and said, "It's been seven days since the new clothes palace bureau was delivered, and the mother has never had time to try it on." Seeing that the mother is busy with her business, hurry up and get busy with her 'private affairs', if there is an inappropriate place, there is time tonight, and the slave will stay up all night......"

Qiaozhu helped on the side and said, "That's it, Niangniang, you can also hurry up and busy yourself." Don't bother to set up the palace banquet well, but in the end let others steal the limelight. ”

Lingxi put down the exquisite fan in his hand, raised his eyebrows and said, "Where else can I grab it?" Now if there is no queen in the court, I am a concubine, and the position is the closest to the emperor. That's enough just to have that......"

Having said that, Lingxi still got up and walked to the dormitory, to try on the clothes to be worn when attending the palace banquet.

Outside the Lingyan Hall, An Xiaowan hurriedly walked in with her left hand stroking her face, with a sad face on her face and a trace of hatred in her eyes.

Hanyu held An Xiaowan's right hand, lowered her head, didn't listen, didn't look or speak, just like a dumb slave.

At the moment when An Xiaowan was about to set foot in the corridor of the Lingyan Palace, the milky voice of the fifth princess came, "Wan Gui Concubine ......"

An Xiaowan turned around to see that the fifth princess in the aqua blue Xiaoluo skirt had already walked in front of her.

An Xiaowan pulled a far-fetched smile at the corner of her mouth, and said softly, "Is the fifth princess here to ask Concubine Ye for peace?" ”

The fifth princess nodded and smiled at An Xiaowan, "Mu'er got up early in the morning and went out to be busy, and she just came back." Concubine Wan is also here to say goodbye to her mother. ”

An Xiaowan nodded, leaned to the side, and said, "Fifth princess, please first." ”

The fifth princess was not polite, and lifted the skirt and crossed the high threshold. After standing firm in the hall, he smiled back at An Xiaowan and said, "Concubine Wan should be careful, the threshold of the Lingyan Hall is a little high." ”

An Xiaowan's right foot, which had just been raised, paused in mid-air. She looked up at the five princesses in a daze, and she saw a different meaning from the childlike smile of the five princesses.

For a while, An Xiaowan actually felt that the threshold of the Spirit Research Hall, which she had to cross several times a day, was so difficult to cross at this time.

The fifth princess raised her eyebrows, and urged in a milky voice, "Concubine Wan, aren't you coming in?" ”

An Xiaowan landed her right foot on the ground, put down the hem of her skirt, raised it to the fifth princess and smiled, "I suddenly remembered that I still have some troubles, and I want to do it now, so I won't go in and say hello to Concubine Ye first." ”

The fifth princess let out a long sigh, and her childish face showed a sudden expression of enlightenment, and said with a smile, "Then Wan Guifei go and do something, it's not good to delay." ”

As he spoke, he lifted the hem of his skirt and trotted into the inner sanctum of the Lingyan Temple.

An Xiaowan stood on the corridor, turned around and got down the corridor after a few breaths, and walked hurriedly towards the outside of the Lingyan Palace.

The fifth princess stood on the bamboo couch in the inner hall, watching An Xiaowan's back disappear into the weeping flower arch at the corner of the Lingyan Palace, with a smug look on her face.

Turning around and jumping off the bamboo couch, she said to Qiaozhu who came out of the inner hall, "Qiaozhu, tell my mother that I have been here, and I will go out to play for a while." ”

With that, he lifted his skirt and ran out, like a gust of wind.

Lingxi came out of the dormitory, and while arranging the pink clothes embroidered with gardenias, he raised his head and said to Qiaozhu suspiciously, "I seem to have heard the voice of the fifth princess, why don't you see anyone?" ”

"It's indeed the fifth princess." Qiaozhu raised his hand and scratched his forehead, turned back to Lingxi and said, "She asked the slave maid and Niangniang to tell her that she had come, and then ran out like a smoke......

Lingxi looked into the courtyard of the Lingyan Palace, her beautiful eyes swept to the figure of the fifth princess running out, and said with a smile, "It's really getting less and less princess-like, I don't spoil her very much?" ”

The lotus leaf that came out behind Lingxi nodded again and again, and said, "The princesses in other people's palaces are accompanied by six or eight palace maids, and they pay attention to their words and deeds at any time to learn etiquette. Our five princesses are different, they will run wherever they go, and the etiquette is really much worse than when they first came to the Lingyan Palace......"

Lingxi smiled, and there was a hint of justification in her tone, "The fifth princess is only six years old, which is the age of fun, and she can't let those rules and regulations restrain her nature." Besides, the fifth princess knows etiquette, and the rules in front of people are exactly the same. It's just that I like to play a little bit on weekdays......"

Qiaozhu nodded, "That's right, the etiquette of the fifth princess in front of people really can't find a little wrong, even the teaching of Mama Xi also said that the fifth princess is very smart, she can teach anything once, and she will never teach Mama Xi to teach a second time." ”

Sitting on the bamboo couch, Lingxi Liu raised his eyebrows proudly, "Of course smart, can my daughter not be smart?" ”

That tone, that demeanor, as if the fifth princess was really pregnant and born in October.

As the three of them were talking, they saw the fifth princess running back from outside the Lingyan Hall in a hurry. As soon as she ran into the inner hall, the fifth princess threw herself into Lingxi's arms and smiled extremely sweetly, "Mother, Mu'er went out to play and watched Yu Guifei take the Nine Emperor Brothers to bask in the sun in the imperial garden. The Nine Emperors are so small and cute, mother, when will you add a little royal brother to Mu'er? ”

Lingxi took the plain white cotton handkerchief from the lotus leaf's hand, gently wiped the beads of sweat from the forehead of the fifth princess, and said with a smile, "Mu'er doesn't have a fifth emperor brother, why do you still have a little emperor brother?" ”

"The Fifth Emperor Brother has grown up." The fifth princess sat up straight, leaned on Lingxi's arms, and said, "I heard that Mama Xi said that the fifth emperor brother will go to primary school to study when he is five years old, and his mother will be busier than now, and there will be no one to play with Mu'er." ”

Lingxi's eyes moved, reached out and pinched the little nose of the fifth princess, and said with a smile, "Mu'er can go to play with the Nine Emperor Brothers, and the Seven Emperor Brothers and the Eighth Emperor Brothers, Mu'er also has a Seventh Emperor Sister, how can so many people have no one to play with Mu'er." Besides, Mu'er is older and has a lot to learn, so how can she think about playing every day......

The fifth princess took Lingxi's delicate hand, compared Lingxi's big hand with her small hand, and said, "Mu'er can learn while playing, the royal brothers and sisters in the other palace are good, but they don't live together in the end, and it's not convenient to ......."

"People are big ghosts, you really ask for ......"

As he was talking, he saw An Xiaowan holding Hanyu's hand and walking in from outside the hall, with a smile on her face and a confident light in her eyes, which was completely different from the previous sadness.

Lingxi was surprised, and after An Xiaowan finished greeting her, she smiled and said, "What happy thing have you encountered today?" ”

An Xiaowan raised her eyes and looked at Lingxi, the smile on her face became bigger, and she replied, "I didn't encounter a happy thing, but I encountered a troublesome thing." ”

The fifth princess sensibly got down from Lingxi's arms, and said in a milky voice, "Mother, Mu'er went to play with the fifth emperor brother." ”

After saying that, he turned around and went out.

After the little figure of the fifth princess ran out, Lingxi looked back at An Xiaowan and said, "Since it's a troublesome matter, why are you still so happy?" ”

An Xiaowan's eyes flashed with a gleam, and she forcibly held back the excitement in her heart, and said, "I went out today and met Yue Baolin and Yan Meiren in the garden." They saw that I was a bully, so they said that I was unsalted......"

Lingxi nodded slightly, motioning for An Xiaowan to continue.

"I wanted to put up with it." An Xiaowan raised her willow eyebrows and said happily, "But when I think about it, if this is you Ye Guifei, you will definitely not bear it." So I went back to the Imperial Garden, and as a noble concubine, I punished Yue Baolin for kneeling on the bluestone road of the Imperial Garden for two hours......"

Lingxi looked at An Xiaowan's eyes with a hint of surprise, and said with a smile, "Xiaowan, I didn't expect you to fight back......"

"I didn't expect ......," An Xiaowan said with her eyes full of eyes, "Seeing Yue Baolin kneeling in front of my eyes at that moment, my heart was very happy." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy," Lingxi patted An Xiaowan's hand lightly and said, "You can't be happy now, they are bullying you, you have to be very sad and sad to ......"

An Xiaowan stood up and blessed Lingxi as if she had opened the seven tricks, and said with a smile, "Xiaowan has been taught, Xiaowan has retired." ”