Empress Dowager Cui smiled in her eyes and said, "Okay, you concubines are used to it, let the princesses have to come to accompany the old woman of the mourning family, so that you can give the mourning family a few more intimate grandchildren." ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of all the concubines turned red.

Empress Dowager Cui pointed to the remaining seven ice sculptures and said, "The three small ones are for the seventh princess, the eighth princess, and the ninth princess." Be young, don't get frozen. Concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, you pick one for the princesses yourself. ”

After Concubine De, Concubine Yu, and Concubine Chun thanked each of them, they each took a small ice lotus.

After the Empress Dowager Cui saw the three of them pick up the ice sculpture for the palace people, she said to Queen Wang, An Guifei, Liang Concubine, and Wu Guifei, "These four larger ones are for the third princess, the fourth princess, the fifth princess, and the sixth princess." Take it back and play with the princess. ”

An Guifei, Liang Concubine, and Wu Guifei did not dare to trespass, and they all gave way to the queen.

Queen Wang glanced at the four larger ice lotus flowers a few times, and raised her hand several times without hesitation.

Empress Dowager Cui urged, "What, the queen doesn't think it's delicate enough?" ”

Queen Wang looked back and smiled, "After returning to my mother, my sons will see any of them, and they all want to take them back for the third princess to play." But I was afraid that the three of them would say that their sons were stingy. ”

Empress Dowager Cui laughed and said, pointing at Queen Wang, "Zhenzhen'er is a stingy person, choose quickly, the third princess has a bad time, and then let her come and ask for the mourning family." ”

Queen Wang replied, took an ice lotus flower with bubbles in the petals and handed it to Yixiang to hold it together, but she was uneasy in her heart.

Concubine An's face was not good, and she hesitated among the remaining three ice lotuses, and finally took one casually and handed it to the palace maid behind her.

Wu Guifei and Liang Concubine also took one each, looking at the ice lotus with joy on their faces.

After the ice lotus was divided, the Empress Dowager Cui said that she was tired, and Emperor Yonghe retired with all the concubines and concubines.

When the gate of Yongshou Palace was keyed, it was already three o'clock.

Empress Dowager Cui took off her makeup, crooked on the bed and took a bowl of warm goat milk handed over by Lingxi, looked at Lingxi inquiringly for a few times and asked, "Ling'er, King Rui received your credit today, do you have any resentment in your heart?" ”

Lingxi shook his head and replied, "The slave has no resentment in her heart. The slave waits for the queen mother wholeheartedly, as long as the queen mother is happy, the slave and the maid will be happy. ”

Empress Dowager Cui saw that Lingxi was sincere, and there was no dissatisfaction in her eyes, and she said with a little Lingxi's forehead, "Your little mouth, it's really sweet!" ”

Lingxi covered his mouth and smiled, his watery eyes shining with sparkling light.

Empress Dowager Cui said, "The mourning family said that you were sweet, and they laughed at you like this." ”

Lingxi bent her eyes and said with a smile, "The Queen Mother praised the slave maid, and the slave maid was naturally happy." ”

After Mama An warmed the hand stove, she handed it to the Empress Dowager Cui. After taking it, Empress Dowager Cui said to Lingxi, "I've been tired for a few days, you go down to sleep early, and Mama An will talk to the mourning family." ”

Lingxi tucked the quilt under the Empress Dowager Cui and blessed it.

Mama An sat on the low stool next to the bed and gently beat the legs of the Empress Dowager Cui.

Empress Dowager Cui didn't know where to look, and asked after a long time, "Do you know which one took it?" ”

Mama An paused, and after thinking for a while, she shook her head, "It's mixed together, it's messy, and the slaves and maids can't tell which one is." ”

"Either way, it's all creation." Seeing that Empress Dowager Cui didn't squeak for a long time, Mama An added cautiously.

"Creation?" Empress Dowager Cui sneered, "Look at their own lives." ”

The princesses got delicate ice sculptures, and they really liked it tightly. But no matter how beautiful it looks like it's made of ice, how can it grow in the house?

The seventh princess and the eighth princess were young, and they melted away after playing with them in their hands for a long time. Although the ninth princess also likes to be tight, the pure concubine is cautious, and the ninth princess is only allowed to see it, not to touch it. That's it, and within a day, the ice lotus flower will not be able to turn into a shape.

The third princess got the advice of the queen and said that she was allowed to play casually, so the ice lotus of the third princess also broke early.

Wu Guifei took a beautiful one for the sixth princess, but before Wu Guifei returned to the palace, it fell to the ground and shattered. Concubine Wu was afraid that Empress Dowager Cui would know about the punishment, so she told the sixth princess that she was bad and not allowed to tell the truth. Although the sixth princess was also curious about what the ice lotus looked like, she didn't dare to ask for another one with the Empress Dowager Cui, so she was disappointed in her heart.

The ice lotus of the fifth princess was not broken, because as soon as the concubine returned to the palace, she found an ice box and put it in it, and she didn't even take it out.

The fifth princess looked at the ice lotus in the ice box, and then looked at the concubine, and before the mother concubine could call out, she was already choked.

Three days later, Qian Weishi went to various palaces to spread the words of the Empress Dowager Cui, and it was rumored that the princesses brought their respective ice sculptures to the Changle Hall of Yongshou Palace to meet them.

The princesses who had broken the ice lotus were very worried in their hearts, but when they thought that the ice lotus couldn't be kept, they put their hearts down.

On November 15, six of the eight princesses went empty-handed. In addition to the fifth princess's personal palace maid carrying an ice box, the fourth princess was holding an ice lotus flower in both hands, and her face was pale.

In the Changle Palace, when the fourth and fifth princesses knelt down in front of the Empress Dowager Cui and Emperor Yonghe, the Empress Dowager Cui was also puzzled.

Emperor Yonghe turned his head and frowned at Empress Dowager Cui, and whispered, "Didn't you just prepare one?" ”

Empress Dowager Cui's gaze swept over the two princesses, and the two princesses were both pale and couldn't see anything.

Empress Dowager Cui asked the fourth princess and the fifth princess to stand up, and said to the fourth princess gently, "Qingying, tell me, how did your ice lotus flower be preserved so well?" ”

The fourth princess was pale, and her small mouth opened a few times and she couldn't speak.

She sneered in her heart, why her ice lotus was so well preserved, because it was not ice at all, it was made of fine crystals. The four princesses took the same lotus, but only one was a crystal, does this need to be said?

After the other princesses got the ice lotus, they happily took it to play, and she cried for three days at the crystal lotus. She cried why she was born in the royal family, and cried why she got this crystal lotus.

The fourth princess glanced at the ice box in the hand of the fifth princess and had a plan in her heart, although she knew that she was deceiving the monarch by doing so, she still put a soft smile on her face, and Yifu said behind her, "Back to the emperor's grandmother, Qingying likes this lotus, so she put it in the ice box to watch." Today, the emperor's grandmother asked her to bring it over, and Qingying happily held it over. ”

Although there was no change on Empress Dowager Cui's face, she sighed in her heart. Although the fourth princess was not close to her, she also knew that the fourth princess was afraid at this time. In the end, it's his granddaughter, how can it not hurt?

So Empress Dowager Cui turned her head and smiled at the fifth princess again, "Siruo is a true temperament, and he came up directly with an ice box." ”

The fifth princess looked at the Empress Dowager Cui, a far-fetched smile pulled out from the corner of her mouth, and said, "The mother concubine said that you must not let the ice lotus flower turn into a lotus, because this is the intention of the imperial grandmother, and it is also the intention of the father." ”

Emperor Yonghe raised his eyebrows, "Your mother is thinking about your father." ”

The fifth princess swallowed and spit, trembled a few times in her heart, and then knelt down again in front of Emperor Yonghe and Empress Dowager Cui, her demeanor was steady and generous, and her demeanor was thousands. The fifth princess opened her lips lightly and said, "Siruo, I am willing to relieve my father's worries!" ”

The fourth princess lowered her head and closed her eyes, obviously a stone in her heart fell to the ground, but she was filled with sadness.

Lingxi stood in the corner of the Changle Palace, his hand holding the saucer trembling slightly.

Nai He was born in the royal family, and he was born in the royal family!

In this palace, it is not only the bones of the concubines in the palace, but also the bones of the prince and princess!

On November 20, the eighteenth year of Yonghe, Emperor Yonghe issued a decree to crown the fifth princess Siruo as the princess of Zhengyi Siran, and the pro-Dayue Kingdom as the queen.

Feng Cong Sanpin Concubine for Cong Erpin Good Concubine, Ju Yide Palace, the main hall of Yiyang Palace. The tenth prince Li Chenyang was named the king of Xiang, and the ten princes' mansion was expanded to be the palace of the king of Xiang.

On the third day of December in the eighteenth year of Yonghe, the birthday of the Empress Dowager Cui, the palace celebrated. In addition to the various programs that must be there in previous years, it is also filled with new favorite ice sculptures. Those ice sculptures with different expressions and sparkling light really dazzled the ministers of the foreign court.

At the end of the banquet, a huge horny phoenix carved with ice pushed the interest of the banquet ice lantern to the **.

Empress Dowager Cui was dressed in a grand formal dress, wearing cumbersome hair ornaments, and with a noble and elegant smile on her face, she sat on the throne and accepted the bowing of the princes and ministers.

Concubine Liang crossed Concubine Hui in one fell swoop, and her son was crowned King Xiang again, and she looked very unhappy at the banquet.

Empress Dowager Cui looked at her with two points of mockery, three points of admiration, and five points of inquiry.

As a mother, she can push her daughter into the fire pit, her means are ruthless enough, her mind is spicy enough, and her brain is clear enough!

Li Chenyang is also proud, he is the third prince to be crowned king. Regardless of how this throne came about, it is a head higher than the prince who does not have a throne. He has not been treated by Emperor Yonghe since he was a child, but at this time, he is like turning over and becoming a master.

Therefore, when the banquet was only halfway through, he said goodbye to the Empress Dowager Cui with a big smile, and the figure disappeared in a flash.

Concubine Liang also hated her son's incompetence, but in the end, she was her own, and she just wanted to discipline her after the banquet was over. Sister-in-law Suo Yingfei biography

On the tenth day of December in the eighteenth year of Yonghe, Princess Siran, who was only twelve years old, married Dayue Kingdom.

On that day, there was a heavy snow in the sky, and the snow fell on the bright red carpet like a white veil on the carpet.

Princess Siran was dressed in a red wedding dress, holding a crystal made of it, and the crystal lotus flower that was more delicate than the four princesses got walked slowly on the carpet. Every time she took a step on the carpet, it was like leaving a bright red footprint behind her, and in the blink of an eye, she was drowning in heavy snow again.

On either side of the red carpet stood every other day, a palace maid dressed in pink stood and scattered colorful petals from the flower basket she was holding when Princess Siran walked by.

The petals of the flowers fall on the carpet with the heavy snow. Princess Siran felt that the carpet she was walking on now was the road she would take in her life. It is both brilliant and lonely......

Tears slipped from her eyes and fell on the red gold ruyi lock and jade necklace on Princess Siran's chest. She couldn't feel any of the temperature, from the crystal lotus in her hand to the cold hair ornament on her head to the fluttering earrings on her ears to the carpet under her feet......

Princess Siran suddenly felt that she was dead, and she died at this moment.