After laughing and chatting for a while, Zhu Hexi couldn't sit still. "Mother, it's rare for Zhuran to enter the palace, I'll take her to the imperial garden!"

Unexpectedly, Concubine Zhen said: "You child, you don't feel sorry for your mother at all, the mother doesn't know what to do all day long, this person who has fallen in love with the mother has not spoken a few words, you are going to take people away!" ”

Zhu Hexi didn't know what to say, and quietly winked at Zhuran helplessly. Zhu Ran smiled: "The relationship between Niangniang and Xi'er is really enviable!" ”

Concubine Zhen wanted to get up, but one of the palace maids standing next to her took her hand, and the other knelt down to arrange the hem of her skirt. Concubine Zhen said: "It's not interesting to sit in the room, take the princess to see the forged orchids I planted!" ”

Walking into the courtyard, I looked at the twenty or thirty pots of forged orchids neatly placed next to the vermilion lacquer hardwood carved railing, with long thin leaves of light green, and delicate flowers of one color, which was very eye-catching.

Forging orchids are very difficult to raise, flowering is even more rare, because the early seedling process is very susceptible to the influence of temperature, sometimes the same is placed in the sun, only because there is a difference of half an inch from the sun, and the color of the flowers is inconsistent after flowering. The gardener said: Ten years of forging orchid, ten thousand plants together a column.

Zhu Ran exclaimed: "Niangniang's forged orchid is really rare!" ”

Concubine Zhen also sighed, "If you have the intention to arrange flowers, the flowers will not bloom, and you will have no intention to plant willows and willows." I have planted this forging orchid every year, but I have not been attentive this year, but I have opened it the best. ”

Zhu Hexi has never liked flowers and plants, listening to Zhu Ran and his mother discussing the forging orchid with no red leaves and no green, and bored to go to the parrot in the golden silk birdcage at the entrance of the front hall.

Concubine Zhen bent down to pick the rain flower stone that was not too full in the vase, and said while picking: "This stone has been picked countless times, but every time I pick it, I can pick out the unround one." ”

Zhu Ran looked at the stone picked out by Concubine Zhen and said, "It's the mother who is too demanding to be perfect." ”

Concubine Zhen got up, took the handkerchief handed over by the palace maid and wiped her hands, and said with a smile: "The side princess is really wise, and she was broken by your words." If you can't master the things you can't master, you can't ask for perfection, so you can only demand useless things. ”

Zhu Ran sighed in his heart that he couldn't help himself in the royal Guozhen, but suddenly thought that Zhu Hexi was not, and said: "Niangniang gave birth to a good daughter, and it can be said that she is perfect in Xi'er!" ”

Unexpectedly, when Zhu Hexi was mentioned, Concubine Zhen became sad, gently held Zhu Ran's hand, and said: "It can be seen that the princess and Xi'er are intimate, and in the future... What is Xi'er's predicament in the future, and can Princess Fang help out? Seeing that Zhu Ran didn't speak, Concubine Zhen felt rude, and resumed her previous demure and gentle demeanor and said: "Don't be surprised, Princess Side, this palace is really rude." ”

Zhu Ran hurriedly explained: "Niangniang is the imperial concubine, Xi'er is the princess, if you want to say that you will encounter difficulties in the future, it will also be Zhuran who is in trouble, please help Niangniang and Xi'er!" ”

"The side princess is wrong." Speaking of which, Concubine Zhen told Zhuran a story.

The protagonist of the story is the former emperor and the current saint Zhu Yun. The Dragon Boat Festival in the thirty-ninth year of Huanhe, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival twenty years ago, when Zhu Yun was still the prince. At the Dragon Boat Palace banquet, Zhu Yun brought his side concubine Lin to the former emperor Zhu Yuqi as a gift. It is also ironic to say that Zhu Yuqi, who is half a hundred years old, saw that the Lin family was actually devoted to his family, and thought about it for a long time. The eunuchs around him will speculate on the sacred heart and declare the Lin family to enter the palace in the name of the queen. Zhu Yuqi drank spirits to deceive himself and did bad things to the Lin family. Although Lin's predecessor was a Hongchen woman, she was clean and self-conscious, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and committed suicide by hanging herself afterwards. Zhu Yun fell in love with the Lin family for ten minutes, and after learning about this, he sat on the small couch that the Lin family used to sit on for three days, without thinking about tea and dinner, and then calmed down as usual. A year later, the former emperor, who was usually not seriously ill, died suddenly, and Zhu Yun issued an edict after ascending the throne that the prince's side concubines were not allowed to enter the palace, and those who entered the palace were not allowed to enter the court.

After hearing this, Zhu Ran was very surprised. Only then did I know what a gift Zhu Yun had given her to enter and leave the palace freely. also secretly admired in his heart what kind of ability Zhu Heyu had.

Concubine Zhen said: "The side princess has a bright future. ”

Zhu Ran shook his head and said, "It's Prince Ruixin, who has a bright future. Immediately reacted that she had committed a big taboo, the prince of the East Palace was Zhu Hechu, but she said that Zhu Heyu had a bright future, as Zhu Heyu's side concubine, wouldn't she be saying that Zhu Heyu had the heart to seize the throne.

Concubine Zhen didn't care about any taboos, she held Zhu Ran's hand again, and followed her words and said: "The side princess has won the heart of the prince, and naturally she has a bright future. If Xi'er is really in trouble after that, I hope that the princess can help. ”

Zhu Ran nodded and said, "If there really is such a day, Zhu Ran will naturally be." "Concubine Zhen is the imperial concubine, and she is deeply favored by Zhu Yun, and this favor is not just based on beauty. She said again and again that Zhu Hexi would be in a predicament one day, and with her eyes and wisdom, this predicament was definitely not imaginary. It's just that Zhu Hexi and Zhu Heyu have a very good relationship, even if Zhu Hexi is in trouble, it is not his turn to help. Zhu Ran thought to himself.

Speaking of this, a palace maid walked into the court and said: "Prince Ruixin asked Niangniang'an, the prince said that he came in a hurry today, and he didn't come to disturb Niangniang, but entered the palace another day and came with a sincere gift." Finally, he said the main topic: "The prince is waiting for the princess to pass over in the Anhe Palace." ”

Only then did Zhu Ran find that Zhu Hexi was missing, and searched for it with his eyes.

Concubine Zhen smiled at Zhu Ran and said, "She doesn't know where she ran away, maybe it's a colt." Go quickly, Heyu should be in a hurry in a while. He made another joke: "Send him a message, and I will say that he will not come today, and I am angry." When I come another day, if I don't bring a generous gift, I won't let him come to the door. ”

Zhu Ran couldn't help laughing, saluted Concubine Zhen, and was led by the palace maid just now, and walked towards Anhe Palace.

Anhe Hall is located in the south of the East Palace of the Prince, which is specially designed for the prince and the prince to temporarily rest and live when entering the palace. Take a shortcut through the East Palace, and see an elegant quiet place in a remote corner of the East Palace, surrounded by the Yili Hall full of scattered bamboos. remembered what he asked Zhu Hexi before, the thin concubine was called Shen Li'er, and she knew that it was her bedroom when she looked at the name of Yili Palace. Yili, attached to Li'er, it seems that the prince really has affection for her. Two words suddenly appeared in my mind, "Fuhuan" her Fuhuan Courtyard. Zhang Xiang, the provincial secretary of the door, said that Zhu Heyu had affection for him, and Zhu Hexi's mother also said that he had affection for herself. Although she told herself in her heart that she didn't care, why did the three big characters of "Fuhuan Yuan" written by him himself be deeply imprinted in her mind.

Don't think about it anymore, as the palace maid stopped, Anhe Hall had arrived. Like other halls in the palace, the front is the main hall, the back is the sleeping hall, nine rooms, one room for one room. She walked inside, and the words that Zhu Heyu whispered in the court came out of her mind: If you want it, this king will give it to you in the future, and it won't be a moment or a half.

Her heart is depressed, her heart is on a person, she is just afraid of him... Your heart can no longer be single-minded.