It's March.

Because of Chen Jianjun's death, the whole winter of Beijing was shrouded in an atmosphere of solemnity. All civil and military officials had to keep filial piety for the first emperor for three months, and during these three months, they had to wear plain clothes, and they could not drink alcohol and listen to operas, and they could not invite friends to have fun.

In March, the national filial piety has been removed, and the city of Beijing has regained its vitality. The flowers are as red, the grass is as green, and the sun is as bright.

No matter how much sorrow the world has experienced, the order of the four seasons, spring flowers and autumn moons, is always the same.

In Changle Palace, Zhang Weizhao was accompanying the Empress Dowager to weave wool.

After Chen Jianjun left, the Empress Dowager also fell seriously ill. Losing her husband in middle age and losing her son in old age, this heavy fate, even a woman with vitality like Liu, feels too difficult to bear.

Zhang Weizhao thought of various ways to resolve the grief of the Empress Dowager, including decoction and the use of some small techniques to relieve emotions.

Activities such as flower arrangement, gardening, cutting and sewing, and knitting yarn that require gentle body movements, are good for improving mood. When Zhang Weizhao was a student before, her teacher had a severely depressed patient who tried many treatment options, and finally cured her of a very simple activity: knitting wool. Ever since the patient discovered that knitting yarn made her feel better, people around her often received her hand-knitted sweaters, hats and gloves as gifts. And she also got rid of depression in this day-to-day weaving.

When the Empress Dowager was becoming more and more depressed, Zhang Weizhao gave her a lot of suggestions, but she vetoed them. Later, Zhang Weizhao wanted the Empress Dowager to try knitting sweaters. Da Yan didn't have such things as wool and sweater needles, but now as long as Zhang Weizhao wants it, naturally someone will have the idea to take it over.

This novel work aroused the curiosity of the Queen Mother, and she was willing to try it.

The Empress Dowager was very good at needlework when she was young, and later her status became more and more noble, so she was no longer needed to do needlework. But her talent in this area has not disappeared.

Zhang Weizhao became interested in weaving after hearing the teacher talk about the case of knitting wool in his last life, and he only learned some briefly, and the technique was very general.

And after the Empress Dowager learned the basic skills from her, she was able to draw inferences from one another and conjure up many new tricks. The Empress Dowager knitted a close-fitting sweater for Chen Youcong and asked him to wear it inside the court clothes, which was very warm.

I knitted a brightly colored short cloak for Zhang Weizhao, which actually felt a little playful and modern when I wore it, which reminded Zhang Weizhao of many past events in the 21st century, and was very emotional.

The Empress Dowager weaves wool, and the palace ladies all follow suit, coming and going, and now even the teapot covers and chair covers of Changle Palace are woven with wool.

When the Empress Dowager Yu came to Changle Palace to greet the Empress Dowager, she was also full of praise for the Empress Dowager's woolen work. The Empress Dowager Yu chatted with the Empress Dowager, and the palace maids under her asked Xiangyu and Narcissus for their skills, so the trend of knitting wool spread to Changtai Palace.

Chen saw Jun Xu's death, and Chen Youcong ascended the throne. According to the usual practice, the Yu family, who has been promoted to the empress dowager, will move out of the Kunning Palace and live in the area specially designated for the widow of the former emperor in the West Sixth Palace. Yu chose Changtai Palace. The other concubines were all placed in Changxiang Palace.

From the queen to the queen mother, Yu's life has not changed fundamentally. Even her appearance and expression have not changed much. is still so virtuous, stable, gentle and modest.

The Empress Dowager actually doesn't like to be accompanied by someone like Yu. Whatever you say, she has that tepid, painless smile, so you can't guess what she thinks in her heart.

At first, Yu came to greet the Empress Dowager every day, and the Empress Dowager took pity on her that her life was not easy, and she was widowed without a son and a half daughter, and she was very gentle and sympathetic to her. Later, I found out that no matter what attitude you have, she is the same as wearing a mask and not really communicating with you. The Empress Dowager was a little impatient. She is old now, and she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life playing with these women in the palace, and there is no need for this. She would rather weave her yarn in a variety of ways.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager directly told the Empress Dowager Yu that she was impatient with the kind of etiquette of greeting every day, so that the Yu family should not come every day, and it would be good for everyone to be loose.

Empress Dowager Yu still smiled tepidly and agreed. When she returned to Changtai Palace, Queen Mother Yu's face was like a cold day, full of frost.

This is to make her continue to be the living dead. When Chen Jianjun was alive, she was a living dead, and Chen Jianjun was dead, and she was not allowed to come out to defraud the corpse.

Her life was buried alive by the Chen family.

The Empress Dowager didn't know what the Empress Dowager was thinking. She only felt that as the weather warmed up, her heart gradually warmed up.

After coming back to her senses, she began to worry about the marriage of the new emperor Chen Youcong. Chen Youcong is 18 years old this year. Back then, when the Empress Dowager was included in the palace by Chen Huaishen, Chen Huaishen was eighteen years old, she was only seventeen years old, and she gave birth to the eldest princess of Fengqing after the New Year.

Although Chen Jianjun died less than a year ago, Chen Youcong Shouxiao could not get married, but things can be prepared first, and the ceremony will be held in the spring next year.

Chen Youcong solemnly told the Empress Dowager that the only person he wanted to marry in his life was Zhang Weizhao, and he hoped to be with Zhang Weizhao wholeheartedly until he grew old.

How could the Empress Dowager not comply? First, Zhang Weizhao is also a person that the Empress Dowager likes very much; Second, after witnessing the entanglement of Chen Jianjun and Jin Ling'er in her life, the Empress Dowager took secular etiquette more lightly.

As long as Chen Youcong is happy, he can do whatever he wants. Her old lady is just waiting to marry her granddaughter-in-law and hold her grandson.

The Empress Dowager has imagined countless times in private that Zhang Weizhao is beautiful, tall, and physically healthy, and the great-grandchildren born in the future will definitely be strong and cute. Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager is full of hope for life again.

Chen Youcong had already proposed to Zhang Weizhao, and Zhang Weizhao readily agreed.

In a previous life, two people who loved each other wanted to be together, and there were many ways to get along with each other, getting married and having children, getting married and not having children, dink, living together without marriage, not living together on weekends, and so on.

But in Dayan, two young men and women fall in love, and marriage is the only way out that can be accepted by society. And there are many incidental benefits to marrying Chen Youcong, such as the fact that he can give her a good platform, and many of her ideas about education and medical care can be promoted through this platform.

In his previous life, Zhang Weizhao was almost thirty years old, and he had never considered marriage. In this life, I was just nineteen years old and was about to get married, which is quite interesting to think about.

Although I am also willing and my parents are also in favor, Chen Youcong wants to marry Zhang Weizhao, and there is still a problem that must be solved, that is, Zhang Weizhao's identity.

You can't marry directly from the Taoist temple, right?

Finding a suitable identity for Zhang Weizhao is not a difficult task for Chen Youcong, the newly ascended emperor.

However, before Chen Youcong instructed someone to arrange it, Xie Qian took the initiative to find it.

The newly promoted Imperial Vice-Auxiliary has a hidden admiration for Zhang Weizhao. Although he was quiet on the surface, he believed in his heart that Zhang Weizhao's background was extraordinary. He was convinced that at the critical moment of the dispute over the abolition of the crown prince, it was Zhang Weizhao who turned the tide and showed everyone Chen Youcong's unshakable position through the collapse of Mount Tai. If it weren't for Zhang Weizhao, the Great Yan Imperial Court would not be in such a pattern today.

Xie Qian believes that Chen Youcong and Zhang Weizhao will be a pair of emperors and queens of the Great Yan Dynasty. Therefore, he was willing to help them settle this little trouble, and at the same time, he also used it to show them the firm position of his imperial party.

Xie Qian found Zhang Weizhao's "parents" and "family". "Father" Zhang Luan is a fellow acquaintance of Jeju, Hebei, a five-grade official, peaceful and cautious. "Mother" Lian is dignified and simple. There are also two "younger brothers" Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling.

The background of this family is in line with the requirements of the Great Yan Imperial Court for the concubine's family in all respects. What's more, this family originally had an eldest daughter who was about the same age as Zhang Weizhao, but because she was frail and sick in her early years, her family gave her up to become a monk in Taoism in order to prolong her life. But soon after she became a monk, the eldest daughter fell seriously ill and died.

Now the family claims to the public that their eldest daughter did not really die back then, but was taken away by a master of the Tao to practice. During the cultivation period, the daughter learned the wisdom of medicine, and was later called into the palace to treat the Empress Dowager, and won the trust, so she was selected by the Empress Dowager to marry the new Empress Chen Youcong in the spring of next year and become the queen.

The Zhang family ascended to the sky in one step. Chen Youcong specially gave a mansion in the west of the city and the Zhang family, and asked them to move to Beijing with their family and prepare to marry their daughter.

Although they were hit by a pie falling from the sky, the Zhang family was still low-key and silent, quietly packing up their salutes and preparing to go to Beijing.

Only Zhang Luan and Lian knew the true origin of this "daughter" in the family, and the others, including Zhang Luan's 75-year-old mother Han Shi, and Zhang Luan's two sons, 14-year-old Zhang Heling and 11-year-old Zhang Yanling, were told that the official version said that the daughter who had become a monk had been recognized.

Han, who was already half-blind, burst into tears and asked his son why he lied that his granddaughter was gone. Zhang Luan knelt on the ground and explained that the child's condition was very bad at that time, and he was taken away by the master at that time and said that he would find another master to treat him, and it was difficult to say whether he would be cured or not. For fear that the Han family would be worried all the time, he simply said that the person was gone. In fact, it was an empty coffin that was buried.

Han was so angry that he picked up his crutches to beat his son, but he raised it high but put it down. I want to hurry up and pack my luggage and enter Beijing.

When Lian saw this scene, he also wiped his tears. The Han people are old and confused, but the Lian family is not. It was the clothes she personally combed her daughter's hair and put it in the small coffin, how could it be wrong? The future queen mother, although also surnamed Zhang, was not their daughter.

After Zhang Luan returned to the room, he hugged Lian's shoulder and comforted him carefully, maybe it was really his daughter who arranged this one in the sky? Otherwise, such a good thing does not fall into other people's homes, but falls into our homes?

Lian felt that her husband was very reasonable, so she was also very eager to see this future queen of the same age as her daughter.