It wasn't until all the ladies and ladies had already entered the table that the princess helped the maid to slowly enter the palace.

Her body was still young, and she was not pregnant yet, but she still carefully held the handmaid's hand and walked in slowly, nodding to the ladies who got up to salute with a smile, and went to the queen of heaven to bow down.

"That's it, get up." The queen smiled slightly, nodded, and asked Xu Siyan to help the princess up, "You have a body, you don't have to be polite." ”

The crown princess thanked her and sat down on the couch, only then did she remember, and pulled out a smile towards Gu Mingzhu on the side: "The matter of the Qibao Banquet has bothered the county lord. ”

Originally, the Qibao Banquet should have been the crown princess helping the queen of heaven to take care of it, which was a traditional rule in the palace, but this time the crown princess was pregnant, so she didn't ask anymore.

Gu Mingzhu noticed the reluctance in the princess's smile, looked at her and looked at her with a very defensive and vigilant look, and couldn't help but wonder, is there something going on, although the princess and her were not close to her before, and they didn't have much contact, they were also kind to her, but now it seems to be a little different.

She frowned slightly, but she respectfully bent her knees and said she didn't dare.

The queen of heaven saw it clearly, and her eyes were a little more gloomy, but she smiled at Gu Mingzhu and said, "This time everyone is here, are you ready for the release?" ”

There is a custom of releasing life on the seventh day of the first month, and it is not easy to kill in the palace, and even the Seven Treasures Banquet is vegetarian to show the virtue of good life.

It's just that this release ceremony is also extremely difficult to arrange, just because this time is the ice and snow, and the animals and creatures have been hibernating, it is really difficult to be as lively as the Buddha Bathing Festival, and in previous years, it was only to put some birds, carp and the like, but because the weather was too cold, there were not many people who survived, but there was no such intention.

This time it was arranged by Gu Mingzhu, is it still the same.

Gu Mingzhu smiled: "Please Niangniang, the crown princess Niangniang and all the ladies to move to the edge of Weiyang Pond, they are all ready over there." ”

The queen of heaven stretched out her hand, asked her to help herself up, and took the lead in walking out of the hall: "I want to see what new things you have." ”

The crown princess hurriedly helped the palace maid to get up, but she saw the queen of heaven holding Gu Mingzhu's hand trustingly, and said with a smile, her eyes couldn't help but dim a little, pursed her lips and led people to follow behind.

The ladies and ladies also followed, and bursts of laughter broke the peace by the Weiyang pool.

The sheepskin boots creaked on the icy road, and the queen of heaven watched Gu Mingzhu help her across the lake pavilion and the lakeside building, but she didn't stop, and couldn't help but be curious: "What are you preparing?" Why haven't you seen it yet? ”

Gu Mingzhu chuckled: "It's in the forest in front." ”

Behind the red plum is a dense forest, lush and excellent, cedars and aspen grow tall and dense, and ice cubes hang on their backs, exuding a dreamy light.

A stone path led straight into the forest, Gu Mingzhu helped the queen of heaven and led the ladies to walk along the path to the forest, and stopped at the edge of a spacious clearing, where there were already palace maids and grandmothers waiting, holding a small cage wrapped in a mattress in their hands, but they couldn't see what was inside.

When the queen of heaven saw it, she couldn't help laughing: "What kind of sale is this, but a lark?" ”

There are fewer birds in winter, only larks and turtledoves are common, and in previous years, they were all larks.

The ladies and ladies who followed behind were also curious, and kept looking at the cages.

The crown princess gathered the mink cloak on her body, but she stood aside and never came closer.

Gu Mingzhu personally brought a cage and asked Xu Siyan to lift the mattress on it, revealing the true face of the cage.

Inside, a small snow-white ball pricked up its ears and timidly looked at the surprised people outside the cage.

"It's ...... Hare? ”

The queen looked at the little soft and timid little thing in the cage in surprise, and couldn't help laughing: "Where did you get it?" ”

Gu Mingzhu asked the grandmothers to open the cages one by one, and said with a smile: "Not only hares, but also squirrels, all of which were to be disposed of in the court some time ago, and they were brought back from the paddock during the winter hunt, because they were all inconspicuous little things and useless to keep, so I asked the Shanggong Bureau to come forward and ask them for a release." ”

They are all women's dependents here, although they are all noble on weekdays, but they are all women after all, and they soon fell in love with those soft and cute little things, and praised them: "It's really good, these are very suitable." ”

The queen of heaven also smiled and nodded: "It's hard for you, I actually thought of this." ”

Gu Mingzhu smiled and lowered her head, this was not what she thought of, but the inspiration given to her by the pair of Wei Wei and Mao Mao sent by Cui Lin, what is more touching than these little things, and she can live in this forest safely.

Xu Siyan opened the cage, took out the fluffy little hare, and sent it to the queen of heaven.

In the face of this little thing, the queen of heaven was also rare cautious on her face, holding it and touching it before putting it on the snow, and said softly in her mouth: "Go quickly, don't teach others to take it." ”

Seeing that the little hare stood stunned for a while, and then jumped and ran away, everyone was interested, took the gadgets in the cage, couldn't put it down, teased it, and released it one after another, watching the little things run away in the snow, they all laughed, and talked very excitedly.

Only the crown princess, looking at the cage sent to her, couldn't help but hesitate, seeing that everyone had already let go, then she slowly stretched out her hand to pick up the hare.

Holding the little squirrel was a little palace maid dressed in low-class palace clothes, and when she walked up to the crown princess, her hands trembled faintly, and she didn't dare to raise her head, let alone look at her, as if she was a little timid.

She sent it to the crown princess, but her eyes couldn't help but glance at Gu Mingzhu a few times, and Gu Mingzhu noticed it.

Gu Mingzhu's heart suddenly tightened, these people who were holding cages and waiting in front of him were all specially selected by the Shang Palace Bureau, and they were all clever people in the court, and they also wanted to see if they were useful, so they had to pick two of them to their side.

It's just that there is something wrong with the little palace maid in front of her, even if she doesn't see nobles on weekdays, she won't be afraid of being like this when she sees the princess, and she doesn't see anything wrong with her in front of the queen of heaven.

Unless she ......

Gu Mingzhu suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and raised her voice and said: "The crown princess is pregnant, I'm afraid it's not easy to touch these, so it's better to let Mama release her on her behalf." ”

The crown princess was originally a little reluctant, and the hand that had already reached out to her immediately took it back when she heard her words, and her face showed a little lighthearted: "It's okay, the imperial doctor also asked me not to touch these living creatures more." ”

It's just that her look showed her wariness of Gu Mingzhu, and even the queen couldn't help frowning, looking at her with a somewhat gloomy face.

The little palace maid was startled by Gu Mingzhu's voice, and the hare in her hand also fell from her hand, fell to the ground and stopped, and ran a few steps forward crookedly, but she fell into the snow and lost her breath.

For a while, everyone was so shocked that they couldn't move, seeing that the originally living hare died like this, or at the release ceremony, if the crown princess took it personally, wouldn't it be ......

What an unfortunate thing this is, not to mention that there is still an heir in the belly of the crown princess!