This year, the summer in the capital is not very hot, because there is a rain from time to time. After the ambush, there was more heavy rain with thunder and lightning than in previous years.

Chen Yuantai has often stayed in Jingren Palace in recent days, and Qian Yulan has gradually become a favorite of the six palaces. However, because she knew her identity, her family and country suffered great changes at a young age, because she was very humble and polite in the harem. Even if the queen is basically closed because her health and mood are not very good, Qian Yulan will still go to Kunning Palace on time to say goodbye. But most of the time, she just sat in the outer hall, and waited for the palace people to reply that the queen mother knew, and she went back to her Jingren Palace.

On this morning, because there was no early morning, Chen Yuantai got up later than usual. He woke up but didn't get out of bed, just half-lying and looking sideways at Qian Yulan's makeup.

"What do you just want me to do?" She looked at Chen Yuantai's stunned face in the mirror, pursed her lips and smiled.

Before entering the palace, she also cried fiercely twice. The person in the girl's spring boudoir dream should have been a brocade-hearted Tanlang, or a handsome and heroic hero like Chen Xi. Naturally, it should be a hero of her age.

After entering the palace, Chen Yuantai loved her very much, even on the first night of pampering, he was lingering and cared for. Although she didn't know much about these things, she felt pampered and respected from Chen Yuantai's attitude towards her. Gradually, one of her hearts fell.

"I'm guessing which hairpins you're going to wear today," Chen Yuantai said with a smile, "If you wear the same as I guessed, then I'll still stay in Jingren Palace today." ”

A thin flush appeared on Qian Yulan's face, she glanced at the row of hairpins on the makeup table, took a glass hairpin, and secretly looked at Chen Yuantai's expression from the mercury mirror.

Chen Yuantai laughed loudly: "Why don't you try the red gold gourd hairpin I gave you yesterday?" ”

"I have good things for the emperor today," Qian Yulan still stuck the glass hairpin on her head, "You have to dress appropriately." ”

Chen Yuantai got out of bed, walked behind her, bent down to support her shoulders and said with a smile: "This lotus pink butterfly wearing a flower skirt, plus this hairpin, could it be that my magnolia wants to be a flower god today?" ”

Qian Yulan pursed her lips and smiled, beckoned to the palace maid waiting outside the curtain, and asked, "Have you taken the things back?" ”

"Back to Zhaorong Niangniang's words, they have all been taken back. I didn't have your orders, so they were still in the tray. ”

Qian Yulan smiled: "Take it in, I'll show it to the emperor." ”

Suddenly, a palace maid walked in with a black lacquer carved tray, on which was placed a white agate plate with a small pinch of tea leaves.

Chen Yuantai walked over and looked at it, sniffed it carefully, and said with a smile: "This is Shifeng Longjing?" It smells like it, but it doesn't look like it. ”

Qian Yulan smiled: "What does the emperor think is not like it?" ”

"The smell is wrong." Chen Yuantai pinched up a few tea leaves and sniffed them carefully, "Longjing is fragrant like an orchid, but this one is a little fresh," he sniffed carefully, "Fresh lotus fragrance." ”

Qian Yulan clapped her hands and smiled: "The emperor is really good to taste!" This is before the palace gate was locked last night, I ordered someone to take the lotus pond in the imperial garden, and only a few pieces of tea were obtained for a yarn bag, and only a yarn bag was placed on a lotus flower. This tea has been dyed overnight with lotus hearts, and it is only after this tea has been smoked that it has these aromas......"

She picked up the boxwood tea holder placed next to the white agate saucer, picked up a piece of tea and looked at it carefully for a while, and then said with annoyance: "The rain is too heavy these days, and the flowers in the imperial garden are a little damp!" You see, the tea leaves have been wet with dew, and they will definitely lose a lot of flavor when they brew the tea......"

She put down the tea clip depressedly, pouted and sat on the brocade stool next to the coffee table, unhappy in her heart.

Chen Yuantai sat down beside her and comforted her softly: "This is just the first time you have done it, these tea leaves absorb incense so well, isn't it all because of your skill?" ”

"This isn't the first time I've done ......it," Qian Yulan said with a pout, "I used to do it every summer when I was in Jinling. In a few days, I will also make a double flower tea of white peony and white jasmine. But the climate of the capital and Jinling is so different, and the palace gates are locked at night, and I can't ...... if I want to go and see these teas."

Chen Yuantai looked at her charming and coquettish appearance, and the tenderness in his heart turned into a puddle of water. He stretched out his arms to hug Qian Yulan and said with a smile: "Then what do you want?" ”

"If I had a way, I wouldn't be so embarrassed!" Qian Yulan leaned her head on Chen Yuantai's shoulder and muttered, "Today's lotus banquet, there are only lotus cakes and lotus leaf porridge, and the emperor can't drink lotus tea......"

"What's so hard about that?" Chen Yuantai stroked the satin-like green silk on her head, and laughed softly, "Today I will order someone to move a few porcelain jars to your palace, and two clusters of lotus flowers are planted in each jar, do you think it?" ”

"When the flowers are planted, I will work with you to wrap the tea leaves in a yarn bag and put them directly into the lotus flowers in your palace. When the dew rises in the middle of the night, I'll accompany you to see these tea bags, do you feel good? ”

Qian Yulan replied with disgust and joy: "Your Majesty has a good idea!" ”

Chen Yuantai smiled indulgently: "If the dew is heavy, let's put a layer of cotton paper in the yarn bag, which is breathable and absorbent, so that it will be foolproof." ”

Qian Yulan put her arms around Chen Yuantai's neck and smiled: "How can you be so smart, how can you do anything!" Haven't you done it before? ”

Looking at her joyful expression, Chen Yuantai felt a little trance. It seems that he is not forty years old, but fourteen years old, and the beauty in front of him is not full of pearls, but a girl with green silk hanging down her shoulders.

"Second brother of the Chen family, it's such a good idea that you have come up with this idea! Wait for Ming'er and I to get these teas, and then ask someone to get some spring water from Lishan Mountain, make tea, and be the first to invite you to drink! ”

What was the taste of that tea back then? Chen Yuantai thought about it, but he couldn't remember. Is it also lotus tea? He's not entirely sure, either.

Yes, it must be. There is a pond dug out of the Chen family compound in Xi'an Prefecture, and every summer is a lotus frog chirping. Every time Magnolia goes to Chen's Mansion to stay, her favorite is that piece of lotus. She said that as soon as the wind blew, the incense came, and the whole person became sparse.

Qian Yulan saw that Chen Yuantai was thinking about something, blinked her eyes, still hugged his neck, and called softly: "Your Majesty, ......"

Chen Yuantai came back to his senses, looked at Qian Yulan in a daze for a while, and suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly.

Two points of similar beauty, five points of the same temperament, plus the same name, can make yourself confused and fascinated.

"If you have any other good ideas, let me know as well." Chen Yuantai took Qian Yulan's slender hand, "I'll help you do it, let's do it together." ”

Qian Yulan's eyes sparkled and nodded.