In the vast night, the shadow wandered in the dimly lit snow. The powder-blue cloak floated up behind her and fell like colorful wings.

Suddenly, the slow shadow turned around the corner of the Taihe Palace, and it was gone.

Emperor Yong'an raised his eyebrows lightly, and strode in the direction of the shadow news.

But when Emperor Yong'an turned around the corner of Taihe Palace, the imperial garden at night was empty, and there was still that powdery blue figure.

Gonggong Feng ran forward with the palace lamp from behind, handed the oil-paper umbrella he picked up from the corner of the wall to Emperor Yong'an, and said, "Your Majesty, this is the oil-paper umbrella she left." ”

Yongan took the oil-paper umbrella stained with snow foam into his hand and looked at it carefully.

After a while, he said to Feng Gong, "Little Fengzi, it is not snowing at this time, and it is night, why did she use an umbrella?" ”

Gonggong Feng lowered his head and smiled, and said, "Your Majesty, this, this slave doesn't know, I'm afraid I have to let the master explain it himself." ”

Emperor Yong'an handed the oil-paper umbrella to Gonggong Feng, sighed and said, "Xu I heard it wrong. ”

In the distance, Xiaojingzi came with a team of eunuchs, all carrying the Lantern Palace in their hands.

Xiaojingzi walked in front of Emperor Yong'an and asked An Hou to say, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager sent someone to say that she wanted the Emperor to come over earlier." ”

Emperor Yong'an nodded and walked to the front of the line, "Let's go." ”

An Xiaowan hid in the bushes, holding her wildly beating heart and trembling. It wasn't until the night was three minutes darker, and even the rough slaves had finished their work and returned to the Yeting Palace, that she hid her face and returned to the Lingyan Palace.

Lingxi sat in the inner hall, looked at An Xiaowan with a trace of cold air on her body, and said with a smile, "What's the matter, have you seen it?" ”

An Xiaowan nodded, but shook her head again, "I glanced at him from a distance, and then ......"

"He didn't see you?"

"See." An Xiaowan lowered her head, slowly walked to the dwarf kang, and sat opposite Lingxi, "Take a look at it from a distance." I know he's him, he doesn't know I'm me. ”

Seeing An Xiaowan's loneliness, Lingxi sighed, raised her eyebrows and said, "That's it, you can't rush this matter for a while, you go back and rest first." ”

"The concubine retired." An Xiaowan stood up and bowed, turned around and went out.

After An Xiaowan went out, Lotus Ye bent down and sat on the small table in front of the low kang, and while helping Lingxi pinch her legs, she said, "Niangniang, Concubine Wan can't get past the chop in her heart, what should I do about this?" ”

"I'm worried about this too...... Lingxi lifted her forehead and sighed, "She's not in a hurry, but I'm in a hurry." The slower I move, the more uncertain I become. ”

After being silent for a moment, a glimmer of light flashed in Lingxi's eyes, she looked at Lotus Ye and said, "Since An Xiaowan is unwilling to take the initiative, then she can only let the emperor take the initiative." It's a bit risky, but it's a way to break the deadlock. ”

"Mother, what method have you come up with?" The lotus leaf raised its head.

Lingxi beckoned to the lotus leaf and whispered a few words in the lotus leaf's ear. Lotus Ye's eyes lit up after hearing this, but after a while, he dimmed again, "Niangniang, if you don't get it right, it's a crime of bullying the king......"

"It depends on whether An Xiaowan cooperates or not." Lingxi raised her head and smiled at Lotus Yewan'er, "As long as she is obedient, she can get what she gets, and I can get what I get." ”

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Since Yongshou Palace opened its doors to the concubines of the harem, the harem has been very lively.

Early in the morning of December 21, the eighth year of Yong'an, Concubine Rou went to the Yongshou Palace to greet the Empress Dowager Xiaohe. When I came out one morning, I already had a small part of the account book in my hand.

Although Emperor Yong'an and the Empress Dowager Xiaohe have not issued an order, such a move has already told the concubines in the harem that it is only a matter of time before Concubine Rou assists the six palaces. Concubine Rou also straightened her spine, and the smile on her face became more and more proud.

At that time, in the afternoon, Concubine Ren also went to sit in the Yongshou Palace, and listened to the palace people around Concubine Ren say that Concubine Ren was full of witty words in the Changle Palace, which caused Xiao and the Empress Dowager to laugh constantly. When Concubine Ren retired, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe took Concubine Ren's hand and asked Concubine Ren to go again the next day, and then talk about the customs and habits of the Great Moon Kingdom.

The people in the palace know that Concubine Ren, as Princess Dayue, is the best way to tell Xiaohe the Empress Dowager Princess Chaoran's weekday locks. Although Princess Chaoran has been separated from Xiao He and the Empress Dowager, she can't stop Xiao and the Empress Dowager's motherly heart.

Not long after Concubine Ren left, Xian Guifei took the infant eighth prince and went to greet Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager. The eighth prince is not the first great-grandchild prince that the Empress Dowager Xiaohe has seen, but the Empress Dowager still smiles from ear to ear.

Before the concubine retired, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe asked Zhiqiu to take out a ruyi padlock inlaid with gold and jade. After putting it on for the Eighth Prince with her own hands, she smiled and said, "This padlock was worn by King Rui when he was young. Today, a mourning family will give it to the little prince, so that the little prince will grow up quickly, Tao Wuluo, and share his father's worries. ”

Xian Guifei hugged the eighth prince and thanked him again and again, and left with joy.

For a few days, the concubines above the graceful position in the harem were put in the first place, and the important thing was no longer thinking about how to please the emperor, but thinking about how to go to the Yongshou Palace to sit with the Empress Dowager Xiaohe for a while.

It was only half an hour, and after coming out of the Yongshou Palace, they also felt a lot more confident, and in front of those low-level concubines, their heads couldn't help but be raised by three points.

While the concubines were plotting to curry favor with Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, Emperor Yong'an fell into one hallucination after another.

On December 22 of the eighth year of Yong'an, at night, Emperor Yong'an went to the Hehuan Hall in a soft sedan chair, and saw a pale pink shadow stopping at his own side under the corner of Yide Palace.

Emperor Yongan ordered the eunuch around him to go and check, but when the little eunuch came back, he said that the person was gone.

On December 24, the eighth year of Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an went to sit in the palace of Xin Concubine, and when he came out, he saw a tender yellow figure and glanced at him, and then disappeared into the corner of Yide Palace in the night.

On December 25 of the eighth year of Yong'an, Emperor Yong'an once again saw that figure at the corner of Taihe Palace. As before, the figure ran away when he saw Emperor Yong'an, and disappeared when Emperor Yong'an chased him to the Imperial Garden.

After doing this three times in a row, Emperor Yong'an finally couldn't help his curiosity. He ordered the secret guards to stay around the Taihe Palace at all times to see which woman frequently appeared in his sight but did not see him.

After squatting for two days, the secret guard came back with an embarrassed face and said to Emperor Yong'an, "Master, there are more than a dozen palace maids who appear around Taihe Palace every day to inquire about the news. The cloaks on his body are also varied, and there are all kinds of colors, and his subordinates really don't know which one is the one the master said......"

Hearing what the dark guard said, Emperor Yong'an couldn't be sure that he had met the same person these times. After all, it's all in the night, and it's so far away.

The day flickered to Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Taihe Palace Protector and the palace family banquet in the palace, Emperor Yong'an and the princes and concubines kept vigil together.

Emperor Yong'an sat on the main seat, and the back seat on his side had been withdrawn, replaced by the seat of filial piety and the empress dowager.

Lingxi sat in the first position on the left hand in a gorgeous costume. With a proper smile on her face, she kept raising a glass with Concubine Ren beside her. After drinking a cup of warm wine, he never took the initiative to look up at Emperor Yong'an, nor did he take the initiative to raise his glass to Emperor Yong'an once.

If it were in the past, Lingxi might have flattered Emperor Yong'an and pretended to be happy. But today is different, she can't, she can't.

She can't forget that Chinese New Year's Eve a year ago, when she lost a daughter in the cold palace.

Although the Empress Dowager Xiaohe is old, she is still deaf and clear-sighted. She swept the smiles on the faces of the concubines in the hall, and saw the indifference in Lingxi's eyes.

Halfway through the banquet, Xiao and the Empress Dowager beckoned to Lingxi and said with a smile, "Concubine Ying, come here." ”

The concubines who were laughing and laughing in the hall stopped their movements because of the actions of filial piety and the empress dowager, and set their eyes on Lingxi's body.

Lingxi raised his head and glanced at everyone, put down the wine cup and got up, walked in front of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager in the sound of silk and bamboo, and slowly squatted down. Putting her hand on the lap of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe, she raised her head and said with a drunken smile, "Ancestor......

"Your hair bun is loose, the mourning family will help you make a hairpin." The Empress Dowager Xiaohe raised her hand, took down a white jade hibiscus hairpin from the Lingxi bun, and raised her hand to shake off the pure gold peony on her head and put it on it.

Lingxi's wine woke up suddenly, and his eyes were full of doubts when he looked at Xiao and the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe put the hairpin firmly on Lingxi's bun, looked directly at Lingxi's luxurious makeup, and said with a smile, "That jade hairpin is too small, and the hairpin can't hold your cumbersome bun." This step takes advantage of your complexion, and the mourners have given it to you. ”

Lingxi's jade hand on the knee of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe tightened, and he looked at the Empress Dowager Xiaohe and lightly opened her lips, "How can the concubine be able to let the ancestor personally hairpin for the concubine?" ”

"Girl," the Empress Dowager Xiaohe did not answer Lingxi's words, but leaned over and whispered to Lingxi, "You look back at the people in this room. ”

Lingxi obediently turned his head and looked at the concubines and princes sitting below.

I saw a room of people, and they all looked at themselves, it should be said that they looked at Xiao and the Empress Dowager and themselves.

Concubine Rou had a generous smile on her face, her eyes were full, but the curvature of the corners of her mouth was slightly stiff.

Concubine Ren's gaze collided with her own, and she winked at herself, a hint of intriguing light flashing in her eyes.

Xian Guifei was also smiling, with a hint of shyness on her face, but her left hand on the table was tightly clenched into a fist.

Concubine Yu stroked her stomach, tilted her head to pay attention to the movement on this side, and smiled, but the smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes.

Farther away, King Ning looked at himself and put a glass of wine into his mouth. There was a hint of sarcasm on the face of the second prince, and seeing Lingxi's gaze sweeping towards him, he picked up the wine cup and touched the glass with the second princess beside him......

"Girl, if you are in a different position, you will see it differently." The Empress Dowager Xiaohe held Lingxi's hand and said with a smile, "You can't miss the most exciting part because of temporary gains and losses." ”

Lingxi turned his head, bowed his head and said to Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager, "Ancestor, the concubine knows that she is wrong. ”

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe nodded with satisfaction and smiled at Lingxi. "Go ahead, it's just the beginning."