When Qingming heard this, his carefully groomed brows also wrinkled: "The government also sent people to return to the process before, but now it has been about twenty or twenty days since the ceremony."

Empress Jiang closed her eyes, sat there leaning on the Ming Huang embroidered phoenix brocade pillow, and said after a while: "Tomorrow morning, you can find an excuse to go back to the mansion and have a look!"

Qingming replied "yes" and said, "Niangniang, go back to bed!"

Qingming settled Queen Jiang to sleep, unfolded the cover himself, and fell asleep on the foot of Queen Jiang's big bed.

Lichun took a few little palace maids back to the side room where the palace maids lived, and began to wash up and prepare for sleep.

Among them, there is a little palace maid who is a fellow villager of Lichun, named Yuxi, and lives in the same room as Lichun.

Yuxi twisted a hot hand towel and handed it to Lichun, and said, "Sister Lichun, have you seen the emerald-encrusted gold bracelet that the queen mother gave to Sister Qingming yesterday?"

Lichun took the hot hand towel and wiped his hands, but did not speak.

Yuxi glanced at Lichun and said, "Sister Lichun, what we said in private, we are all upset for you, obviously they are all close people brought back by the queen mother from her mother's family, why does Sister Qingming take all the benefits, but it is so unfair to you!"

Lichun's new hatred and old resentment came to his heart, and he was angry for a while, and said coldly: "Who will let the family serve the queen!"

Yuxi smiled and said, "But we all think that Sister Lichun, you have done the most work and the hardest!"

Lichun sneered and said, "But people can serve them on the bed, but I can't!"

As soon as the words fell, she seemed to realize that she had said something that she should not have said, and she did not explain, threw the handkerchief into the basin, and went to the bedside to begin to undress and prepare for sleep.

Yuxi thoughtfully fished out the handkerchief and twisted it again, then picked up the copper basin containing the water and went outside to pour water.

Early the next morning, Empress Jiang sent her cronies and female officials Qingming out of the palace to Jiang Mansion to deliver the rewards for the year-end sacrifice.

Yuxi learned the news, and immediately told Lichun, who should not be on duty today, and said with an unfair face: "We are detained in the palace all day long, who doesn't know that going out of the palace to give rewards is a beautiful difference, not only can you go out to relax, but you can also get a lot of rewards!" Really, why is such a beauty difference going to Sister Qingming every time! ”

She glanced at Lichun, and saw that Lichun's face was pale, so she said: "Sister Lichun, I heard that the wax plum in the Imperial Garden is blooming, I'll accompany you to relax, we shouldn't be worth it today!"

Lichun was depressed in his heart, so he went out with Yuxi.

The two of them walked and talked as they spoke, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the Imperial Garden.

Yuxi pointed to the Chitose Mountain in front of him and said, "There is a wax plum forest on the north side of Chitose Mountain, let's go over there and take a look!"

The cold north wind carries a faint wax plum cold fragrance, refreshing people's hearts, Lichun is a little irritable, and walks forward with Yuxi.

As soon as he walked outside the wax plum forest, Lichun heard the voice of a little girl in front of him, the voice was delicate, listening to the delicate, he couldn't help but be surprised: "How come there is a little girl in the palace?"

But after thinking about it, she understood: "It's the county lord of Chang'an, right?"

Yuxi walked forward along the path and said softly: "Last night, I didn't leave the palace with the prince's family of four, so I stayed in the side hall of the Jade Hall!"

Seeing this, Lichun had to follow, but listened to Yuxi and said: "Your Majesty really loves and the prince, in addition to this dynasty, where can there be a foreign man who can live in the palace in all dynasties!"

She approached Lichun and said in a low voice: "Prince He will be canonized as the crown prince tomorrow, and he will be the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the future, and Concubine Bai can also occupy a concubine position at the least, Sister Lichun, wait a while, let's not be disrespectful to Concubine Bai, so as not to offend Concubine Bai!"

Lichun naturally knew that what Yuxi said made sense, so he agreed.

After walking not far, Lichun saw that among the plum branches, the white concubine wearing a jade blue satin ferret cloak was leading a little boy and a little girl for a walk. The little girl's big eyes are black and sparkling, her lips are like petals, and she is very cute, she is the county lord of Chang'an.

He was followed by Li Xiuzhen, the chief eunuch of the Yutang Palace, and Han Lin, the personal maid.

Seeing that Li Xiuzhen, who was hot in the palace, actually followed and waited for Concubine Bai, Lichun's heart moved, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly stepped forward with Yuxi and curtsy together.

Yu Yu glanced at Yuxi with a smile, knowing that this clever little maid was also a secret stake arranged by Li Rui, so she smiled and said, "You guys came just in time, I need some wax plum to make balm, Lichun, you two can also help me!"

Where did Lichun dare to refuse, so he replied respectfully "yes", and really took a delicate flower basket from Hanlin's hand, and went to Meilin to pick wax plums with Yuxi.

Yu Yu took her children and continued to walk in the plum forest.

Naya listened to her mother tell these allusions to wax plums, so she smiled and recited a sentence - "dark fragrance floating moon dusk", and translated it into Western Xia language, and then looked up at her mother, waiting for her mother's praise.

Yu Yu didn't know Tangut language, but he knew that his daughter could not only speak Chinese, but also Tangut language, she was really smart, and she was also happy in her heart, and said softly: "My Naya is so smart!"

Naya smiled brightly: "Everyone in the palace speaks Xixia language, and my father was afraid that I would forget Chinese, so he spoke Chinese to me and taught me to recite poems!"

When Yu Yu heard this, she was in a complicated mood, but her face was always smiling.

Lin Yin listened to it on the side, and had a lot of questions in his heart, but he didn't immediately ask them, but kept them in his heart, ready to try to find the answer by himself, and asked his mother again if he couldn't do it.

Lichun and Yuxi picked a lot of wax plums, and then they came over to pay to Concubine Baifang.

Yu Yu smiled and instructed Han Lin: "Lichun they have worked hard, reward them with a pair of hairpins!"

Hanlin replied "yes", and really took two brocade boxes and gave them to Lichun and Yuxi respectively.

Lichun and Yuxi hurriedly thanked him.

Yu Yu smiled gently: "I like to be lively, come to play with me more when you have time in the future, I have my own reward!"

Lichun replied "yes" and retreated with Yuxi.

Back in their own room, Lichun and Yuxi quietly opened the brocade box rewarded by Concubine Baifang.

In the brocade box of Lichun is a pair of pearl hairpins inlaid with red gold, the pearls are about the size of peanuts, white and shiny, very round and exquisite.

In Yuxi's brocade box is a pair of pearl hairpins inlaid with silver, and the pearls are also smaller than Lichun.

Yuxi took out his pair of pearl hairpins, put them in a bun, took a self-portrait in the mirror, and said: "Concubine Bai is really generous, when we see Concubine Bai in the future, we will go up to offer courtesy, maybe next time we will reward more valuable jewelry!"

Lichun took this pair of red gold pearl hairpins and carefully admired them, and said in his heart: The pearls on the hairpin alone are worth a hundred taels of silver, not to mention the inlay technology and the gold on it!

She looked over and over again, but she couldn't find the sign of the palace, and her heart was even happier - if the jewelry made in the palace had signs on it, it was all registered in the register, and she couldn't sell it when she needed silver urgently in the future!

Concubine Bai gave this jewelry, it is really a good thing, and when she leaves the palace in the future, she can exchange money at any time

Thinking of Concubine Bai's sentence "I like to be lively, come to play with me more when you have time in the future, I have my own reward", Lichun's heart was a little hot.

According to the system, the female officials and maids in the palace will be released from the palace as soon as they reach the age of twenty-five, and Lichun will be out of the palace in two or three years, and she has no mother's family, so she naturally has to save some gold and silver for herself

Thinking of this, Lichun locked the brocade box into his box, then picked up his makeup and dressed up, and then went to the Funing Hall to wait.

Lichun waited for a long time, and Qingming came back in a hurry.

Seeing that Qingming's face was not good, Lichun was busy pretending to have nothing to do, and slowly paced to the vicinity of the window of the dormitory, pretending to admire the red plum blossoms that had just bloomed outside the railing, and listening to the movement in the dormitory - this would be the queen mother sitting on the brocade couch in front of the window reading, if the queen mother and Qingming were talking here, she might be able to hear something.

Sure enough, there was a faint voice from Qingming in a hurry: "The old lady originally said that the people sent to Jiangnan have not heard from her for a month, but who knew that as soon as she finished speaking, she received the news that those people sent to Jiangnan were all missing on the way back with Mother Yang, and Mother Yang was gone."

Lichun listened attentively, but it was quiet in the dormitory, and there was no sound.

After a while, Li Chunfang heard Empress Jiang's weak voice: "In this case, let's take the next step, you go and spread the word, let them start spreading the news in the capital, just say that Lin Jia is the illegitimate son of Jiang Shuyan and His Majesty, and his body is not right!"

Hearing this, Lichun was stunned, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, sticky and uncomfortable.