Kotoko Shao Nayan is the queen's confidant, she was born in a small aristocratic family, because of her outstanding talent, the queen took a fancy to it and brought it into the palace. This is the promotion path of many small aristocratic women, and the marriage of the daughters of the little nobles is very difficult, not to marry the same small nobles, but to be concubines of very low status to the big nobles - even the second and third ladies are not mixed with that kind of concubine. If they enter the palace, they can marry in the palace, and they can be the second and third ladies of the big nobles, and if they are lucky, they may be able to become official ladies.

It has been five years since Qinzi Shao Nayan entered the palace, she entered the palace at the age of thirteen, and now she is eighteen years old, which is not young. It can be seen that this young man is very anxious about his marriage, and always asks Yuan Anran about Yuan Anquan's news, intentionally or unintentionally.

Yuan Anran pretended to be a child who didn't understand anything, and smiled and fooled Qinzi Shaoyan.

Yuan Anran went to see the queen first, and at the queen's place, he met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his two companions. Tachibana Junya didn't cause a wind chill after falling into the water last time, and it was good to rest for a few days and be able to enter the palace. Within a few days, the three children were already playing well.

"Cousin Enron, play with us." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince greeted Yuan Anran, and he held a cowhide in his hand to make a small ball. They want to play Keju, which is also a game that has been passed down from the Tang Dynasty.

Yuan Anran wanted to refuse, but the queen spoke, so that he had no way to refuse, so he could only play with the three children.

"Kemari isn't fun, let's play something else, a novel game." Yuan Anran had been running for a morning and didn't want to continue running. Moreover, with his strength, playing Keju with three children is purely bullying three children.

"What to play?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked curiously. What a novelty game? He, the prince, has never played?

Yuan Anran asked someone to bring the chessboard and chess pieces, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince couldn't help but be disappointed: "Playing chess, what's new?" ”

And he didn't like the activity of playing chess very much, it was too brain-consuming.

Yuan Anran smiled: "We are not playing Go, it is a simple backgammon of Xia. ”

Yuan Anran sat down on the chessboard, picked up the chess pieces and put the two of them on the chessboard, and explained the rules of backgammon to the three of them while placing the chess pieces. The three children listened interestingly, and they all gathered around.

"I'm going down, I'm going down." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince grabbed the chessboard and sat down, and got up with Yuan Anran.

The set ended quickly, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince lost.

"Again." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince exclaimed unconvinced.

Yuan Anran stood up, gave up his position to Tachibana Junya, and said with a smile: "Let Junya accompany you with Tonghe, I still have a job, so I won't accompany you." As a sign of my apologies, I'll bring you another game toy tomorrow. ”

"Novelty?" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked.

Yuan Anran nodded.

"Then you go." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince accepted the temptation and generously let the source go and left safely.

Yuan Anran quickened his pace and walked towards the palace of Madame Masako, another giant in the harem.

The Empress and Masako were equally noble. One of them is the daughter of the left minister, and the other is the daughter of the right minister, and they entered the palace at the same time, how to rank the emperor was a headache, and finally made a decree, which gentleman will be the crown prince, which one will be the queen of the middle palace, and the other will be the lady of the west palace. As a result, Mr. Queen gave birth to a crown prince, and Mrs. Nishinomiya gave birth to a princess.

Over the years, the queen and Mrs. Masako seem to be harmonious on the surface, but there is no shortage of battles in secret. This time, the queen borrowed the prince's mouth to keep Yuan Anran in the middle palace, naturally to sweep Mrs. Masako's face, but her move would make Yuan Anran offend Mrs. Masako. She thinks very beautifully, if Mrs. Masako holds Yuan Anran accountable for this, she will come forward to help Yuan Anran and send Mrs. Masako away with a child's playfulness. In this way, not only did he lose the face of Mrs. Masako, but also won over Yuan Anran and the Yuan family and Mrs. Lanzi behind him.

The queen thought well, but she didn't know that she was the one who offended people first. Yuan Anran pretended not to understand what he was doing on the surface, but he had already written down this matter in his heart. The queen calculated him like this, and he had to pay a good tribute to him.

Yuan Anran came to the West Palace, and Mrs. Masako affectionately borrowed from Yuan Anran. The queen underestimated Mrs. Masako, this one's scheming is much deeper than the queen, how could she offend Yuan Anran, who has a deep background, let alone knowing that Yuan Anran was deliberately left in the middle palace by the queen.

The meeting between Gen Anran and Masako was very pleasant. Yuan Anran sympathized with this person's bad luck and did not give birth to a son, otherwise, with her intelligence and scheming, the position of the queen was likely to be hers.

There are also some palace concubines of the daughters of small nobles in the harem, but their status is not high, not as high as the status of Yuan Anran, the son of the inner prince, Yuan Anran does not have to visit them, but when they meet, these people have to salute Yuan Anran.

When Yuan Anran left the harem, he "coincidentally" met Kotoko Shao Nayan. Qinzi Shao Nayan was looking for inspiration to write poems in the garden, and when he saw Yuan An, he was very enthusiastic and gave the poem he had just written to Yuan Anran. This is a very elegant thing in the upper echelons of the aristocracy, but Yuan Anran didn't realize it at all, as a person who had participated in the scientific expedition, Yuan Anranjue's poems were written very naïve, pierced and chiseled, but they were piled up with gorgeous jade qin.

Qinzi Shao said that she wanted to use her own hand to send the poems she wrote to Yuan Anquan, and wanted to use her talent to convince Yuan Anquan. However, she found the wrong person, Yuan Anran didn't cooperate at all, and when she walked out of the harem, she lost the colored note with her poems written on it. This piece of paper is not cheap, and it costs one or two gold for ten sheets. If you go to the garden to find inspiration to write a poem, do you need to make a draft? Who would make scratch paper out of such expensive colored paper?

Back at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuan Anran didn't disturb his father and the others, obediently found a corner and sat down, took out a book and read it. Master Yuan took the time to glance at Yuan Anran's side, and after finding that Yuan Anran was reading the book, he looked away with satisfaction. He didn't know that what Yuan Anran was reading was not the books of the Tang Dynasty that he thought, but the materials of Yin and Yang Arts.

The content of yin and yang covers many aspects such as observing the heavens, knowing the calendar, talking about ghosts and gods, divination, surveying feng shui, sacrifices, etc., it originated from the five elements of yin and yang in China, therefore, it is not difficult for the source to get up safely, because there are many contents in it, he has long studied and studied. However, because the country does not use it, it is much the same, and Yuan Anran corroborates each other, which makes him more aware of this aspect of the content, and the study of yin and yang is also a rapid progress.

After getting off work, Mrs. Lanzi asked Yuan Anran about the first day of work, and Yuan Anran did not hide it, and told Mrs. Lanzi and Lord Yuan about the queen's approach.