There are still dozens of steps away from the Juxiu Palace, and Zhao Xing suddenly whispered: "Niangniang invited the three ladies of Ningyuan Houfu to come over early in the morning to help entertain the guests, Niangniang loves the three ladies the most." The smile on Li Xiaoyi's face remained unchanged, but his hand neatly reached into his purse and took a Jin Fu Dou and stuffed it into Zhao Xing's hand, Zhao Xing's eyes widened for a moment, as if he understood something, took Jin Fu Dou, and continued tentatively: "Yesterday Niang Niang was angry with the third master again, and I heard that the third master cried whenever something happened." Li Xiaoqi listened intently, his subordinates didn't stop, and stuffed a golden blessing bean over, Zhao Xing grinned, and muttered in a low voice: "It's good that Miss Li can often enter the palace in the future." ”

Li Xiaoqi had a lot of smile on his face, and he was not far from the Juxiu Palace when he spoke, Zhao Xing subconsciously shrunk his shoulders, closed his mouth and didn't dare to say another word, Li Xiaoyi's heart was also nervously raised, this Queen Guo is also famous for her virtue and filial piety, and the legend says that she is comparable to the late Empress Xiaoci.

Zhao Xing stopped at the gate of the palace, Li Xiaoqi didn't dare to move, stood with his head slightly down, waited for someone to lead, waited for a cup of tea, and the two maids wearing the same azure gray skirts in the weeping flower gate stood two or three steps away in front of Li Xiaoyi, and said in a soft but cold voice: "Niangniang called Miss Li to come in." ”

Li Xiaoqi followed the two maids through the weeping flower door, turned the frame of the bright yellow background rich flowers bloomed double-sided embroidered screen, the front suddenly opened, Li Xiaoqi along the hand-copying verandah, while meticulously walking forward with meticulous steps, while quietly looking at everywhere with the corner of his eyes, the courtyard is very large, on the lotus-shaped stone platform on the east side of the pendulum door, there is a bronze embroidery mottled old bronze tripod, under the west verandah, there are two bulging belly staring, extremely vivid toad, next to the steps of the main hall, there are two copper cranes more than one person high on one left and one right, two cranes hold their heads high, and their long beaks are half open, Spreading their wings and making a gesture of flying, in the corners of the verandah, there are four huge pots of iron trees. One side of the verandah facing the courtyard is full of all kinds of birds, flying up and down, and the happy chirping is non-stop, but the other side is a piece of stele, Li Xiaoqi has a strange feeling in his heart, this stele is good with copper tripod and copper crane, so many cages are bright, and the birds with bright feathers are beautiful, this is a strange beauty?

When the three of them reached the foot of the main hall, a maid turned around and ordered, "Wait here." Li Xiaoqi hurriedly lowered his hands and stood still, not daring to look around again, paying attention to the surrounding movements.

After another cup of tea, there was finally a call on the half-human-high steps, Li Xiaoqi slightly lifted her skirt up the steps, and followed the handmaid in the azure gray skirt into the main hall.

The hall is covered with a thick flowery rich and long-plush carpet, Li Xiaoqi followed behind the maid without squinting, turned the Baibaoge, the warm winter sun shined on the rosewood along the big kang through the window embedded with glass, Li Xiaoqi knelt down in front of the half-used elastic ink mat in front of the kang, and bowed three times and bowed nine times.

"Get up and I'll see." There was a condescending grace in her voice, Li Xiaoqi stood up, bent her knees again, raised her head, with a slight smile in her face, and looked up at the kang, Queen Guo looked as if she was only in her twenties, but her round face looked extremely small, with big eyes, dense and long eyelashes, a delicate nose and mouth, and a slightly pointed chin, just like a costume version of the doll, beautiful people couldn't believe that it was a real person, and she was looking up and down with cold and sharp eyes.

"I'm clumsy, I don't see what's good, you can see for me." Empress Guo turned her head to look at the front of the kang and said, Li Xiaoqi looked at the past with Guo Hou's gaze, only looking at it full of amazement, almost exclaimed, the girl standing on the side of the kang was seventeen or eighteen years old, her face was four or five points similar to Guo Hou, but it was a very beautiful melon seed face, the warm and pointed jaw curvature was perfect, she had the beauty of Guo Hou, and the bad places of Guo Hou were all perfect for her, there was no place to find fault with a face, her hair was black and soft, with a new cross bun, a pearl the size of a lotus seed hanging from her hair, and her figure was slender and slender. A very light pink tight-fitting jacket with a pine-colored skirt, standing there, the fluttering dust is indescribable, this must be the eldest daughter of Ningyuan Marquis Guo Minrui, the third lady of the Guo family, Guo Yurong, no wonder Empress Guo loves her the most, born like this, who doesn't hurt when she sees it? Li Xiaoqi couldn't take her eyes off it, she had never seen such a beautiful woman with such a look and temperament in her two lives.

"Look at what my aunt said, if my aunt is clumsy, won't everyone in the world have no eyes?! It's not a clumsy sight. Guo Sanniang didn't look at Li Xiaoyi, her smile was better than the flowers, she was gentle and gentle and talked to Guo Hou, Li Xiaoyi exhaled secretly, and her voice was very good, and she said that this Guo Yurong was Kaiping Mansion, no, she was the first talented woman in Beiping Kingdom, not to mention that she was not talented, the first beauty was for sure.

Queen Guo's eyes were full of smiles, she raised her hand and nodded at Guo Sanniang, and said with a smile: "You kid, you can talk!" Guo Sanniang pursed her lips and smiled, the corners of her eyes were a little afterglow, and she glanced at Li Xiaoyi, Guo Hou turned her head to look at Li Xiaoyi, and asked lightly: "Mr. Lu's body is okay?" ”

"Back to my mother's words, Mr. Lu brought a letter last month, saying that he was in good health." Li Xiaoqi replied respectfully, Guo Sanniang glanced at Guo Hou, raised her chin at Li Xiaoqi and asked, "How did you see Mr. Lu?" ”

"It is also a coincidence that Mr. is practicing medicine in Chizhou Mansion." Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at Guo Sanniang, his voice was full of the same respect, Guo Sanniang Xizi frowned and asked tightly, "When?" ”

"Five years ago."

"Hmm." Guo Hou frowned, nodded at Guo Sanniang, Guo Sanniang's eyes dragged Li Xiaomi, looked at Guo Hou and said with a smile: "It's all my aunt!" I was so blind that I couldn't see anything! Cousin Cheng is really sincere, Mr. Lu said okay, he really used it as a staff member?! I really don't know what to say about him! Guo Hou looked at Guo Sanniang with a smile, raised her hand to Guo Sanniang and said with a smile: "The hour is almost over, let's go over." Guo Sanniang hurriedly helped Guo Hou to get off the bed, Guo Hou was in front, Guo Sanniang helped her, whispered and laughed, Li Xiaoqi and the maids followed behind, all the way to Chonghua Palace.

Outside the Chonghua Palace, Lu Feng stood at the outermost intersection, staring at the end of the detour as if admiring the surrounding beauty, Su Zicheng, Su Ziyi and Lu Hua stood at the bottom of the steps and laughed in a low voice, Su Zicheng looked at the outside of the hall from time to time, looked at Lu Feng, who had been stretching his neck and looking at him, wrinkling his brows from time to time, at the entrance of the hall, Princess Ning Wei was talking to Su Biruo.

Guo Sanniang took Guo Hou from a detour and turned into the sight of everyone in the hall, Lu Feng blinked, stepped back to Su Zicheng's side, and asked in a low voice, "What about Xiao Wu?" Su Zicheng glared at him impatiently, and ignored him, Lu Hua frowned, staring at Lu Feng, Lu Feng looked at Lu Hua sensitively, shrunk his shoulders, and retreated to Lu Hua's side, not daring to say more.

Several people saw Guo Hou go up the steps and come in, respectfully saluting, Guo Hou stopped, with a kind smile on his face, raised his hand: "No need to be polite, today is a family banquet, not a national gift." As he spoke, he turned around Lu Hua and Lu Feng, looked up and down carefully, and praised with a smile: "The Heavenly Master Lu family really lives up to its reputation, it is really a dragon and phoenix among people, look at it, compare your uncle to it!" Guo Hou pointed at Su Ziyi and Su Zicheng and said with a smile, Guo Sanniang's eyes moved from Lu Hua and Lu Feng to Su Zicheng, and stopped moving. Li Xiaoqi followed behind with a smile, watching everyone greet each other, Lu Feng looked at Empress Guo and Guo Sanniang over, squeezed his eyes at her, Guo Hou went up the steps, Guo Sanniang hurriedly let go of his aunt, slightly bent his knees and greeted Princess Ning.

didn't wait for everyone to see the gift, the waiter outside shouted loudly, and the emperor came.

Everyone hurriedly poured out of the hall, Guo Hou was the first, Guo Sanniang followed, Wei led Su Biruo, walked a few steps to catch up with Su Ziyi, and Su Zicheng was a group of four, slightly behind half a step to follow, Lu Hua turned his head to look at Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly took two steps, and Lu Feng followed Lu Hua side by side, and followed out at the end.

The emperor is of medium stature, slightly fat, very fair, but his skin is very loose, a person in his fifties, looking much older, holding a ten-year-old or so, wearing a bright yellow silk gown, looks very similar to the beautiful young man of Queen Guo, the two look very similar, they are both gentle and peaceful with the same face, the gait is slow and light, Li Xiaoqi looked at the two carefully, it seems that the legend outside is true, the emperor is gentle and generous, lost in hesitation and cowardice, look at this, this third son of the emperor looks like his mother, this temper and personality are only afraid of being very similar to his father, It's no wonder that the emperor loves him the most, no wonder Empress Guo cries whenever he has something, his mother must not want a son with such a character.

The emperor's smile was as warm as a spring breeze, and he spoke to his sons in a soft voice, then turned to Lu Hua and the others, looked at Lu Hua and Lu Feng carefully, and said with a smile: "The face and body are very similar to Mr. Lu, how is the Heavenly Master?" ”

"Emperor Xie, my father is well!" Lu Hua was about to kneel down with his robe, but the emperor hurriedly smiled and raised his hand to stop him: "Today's family salute, feel free." ”

"Yes!" Lu Hua replied with a smile and lowered his hand, the emperor took two steps, stood in front of Li Xiaoyi, looked at her with a smile behind his back, Li Xiaoyi's smiling bent knees made another blessing ceremony, and the emperor asked with a gentle smile: "You are Li Xiaoyi, how old are you?" ”

"Back to the emperor, seventeen." Li Xiaoqi replied with a smile, and the emperor said softly: "Since Mr. Lu recommended you to Ah Cheng, you must be different, but it is a big deal for the girl's family to marry a good person, don't patronize the grace of the encounter, delay the lifelong event, do you hear?" The emperor was like a chattering elder, talking to Li Xiaoqi softly, Li Xiaoqi was warm and soft by what he said, and he hurriedly bent his knees and thanked: "This is the emperor's love for Xiaoyi, Xiaoxiao wrote it down." ”