A grand ceremony, civil and military officials arrived, but each had their own thoughts.

With the experience of Princess Jing'an, no one has touched Xia Mi's mold. She had something on her mind, and she couldn't whet any appetite for a plate of cold food, so she put down her chopsticks after a few bites.

The canonization of the crown prince is a matter of national glory and a great joy of the country. The Ministry of Rites followed the ancestral system, with nine as the honor, and arranged a total of nine songs and dances to celebrate. By the time the last group of sword-dancing soldiers went down, Xia Mi was already a little impatient. However, she still can't disobey someone's will.

"It's been a day of tossing today, you should be tired, go back and rest early. Xia Qing, come with me. ”

In the huge palace, only Xia Mi was the Xia family, and without hesitation, she got up and followed. In her memory, after Chu Li was canonized as the crown prince, the old emperor also called her out. But she doesn't remember what she said specifically, and it shouldn't be a big deal.

I just don't know if the difference in her behavior in the temple will cause the content of the conversation to change.

Facts have proved that Xia Mi's thoughts are indeed reasonable.

The old emperor walked ahead, and she took a wrong step to follow. The previous topics were all normal, until the old emperor seemed to inadvertently ask about Chu Li's marriage. The strings in his mind tensed for a moment, Xia Mi stared at the bluestone ground, but quickly filtered all the words in his heart.

After thinking about it again and again, she said tentatively: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the dragon and phoenix among the people, and the future crown princess should choose a talented and valuable character to be worthy." Xia Mi is not talented, and he is not very familiar with the ladies in Beijing. ”

After guarding the dragon chair for half his life, the old emperor is naturally the best of the best, and when he heard Xia Mi's obviously inconsistent answer, he just paused for a moment with a slight pause, and then he seemed to sigh and said with relief: "What you said makes sense, I have to ask the queen to help check the selection of the crown princess." ”

Xia Mi didn't make a sound, but she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

The queen and the emperor are a young husband and wife, and their relationship is very good. If it weren't for the fact that the queen had no children under her knees, it would not be Chu Li's turn to be the crown prince. As a courtier, Xia Mi has only seen the queen a handful of times, but he also knows that according to the queen's character, he is naturally unwilling to make Chu Li's position as the crown prince more stable. Leave the matter of choosing the crown princess to her, and the position of the crown princess has nothing to do with her.

I believe that the queen can choose a gentle, graceful, and famous quasi-princess.

Thinking of this, a trace of contemplation quickly crossed Xia Mi's eyes.

The old emperor had an idea in his heart, so he didn't stop her anymore, waved his hand, and motioned to the chief manager who followed him to send Xia Mi out of the imperial garden, and he himself went to the harem with his hands behind his back.

With a slight sweep of the action of turning around, Xia Mi saw that the direction he was going in was the Fengyi Hall where the queen was.

Raising his eyebrows and lowering his eyes, Xia Mi carefully walked down the stairs in response to the laughter of the chief eunuch. As soon as Fang walked out of the range of the imperial garden, a little eunuch with low eyebrows and drooping eyes appeared in front of the two of them. After greeting the chief eunuch, Xia Mi walked slowly towards the kind-faced little eunuch.

After a distance of about three zhang or so, Xia Mi stopped walking. Fang was reborn back, her memory was messy and blurry, she didn't remember who this was for a while, she was close, and when she saw the other waist cards on his waist, Xia Mi found out that this little eunuch was in Concubine Liu's palace.

Her eyelids jumped slightly, and Xia Mi turned around the silver bracelet that Xia Xun gave her to keep her safe, and the look in her eyes deepened slightly.

The little eunuch didn't notice her look, curtsied, and saluted to the chief eunuch from afar, and then said with a smile on his face: "General, Princess Jing'an and you haven't seen each other for a long time, I miss you, I wonder if you have time?" ”

That's a pretty good thing to say.

Xia Mi glanced at the little eunuch quietly, maintained a light smile and bowed his head to signal: "Father-in-law Lao leads the way." ”

With that, she nodded slightly to the chief eunuch. The chief eunuch who had already cultivated into a human spirit immediately bowed and saluted, turned around and left.

Xia Mi didn't speak along the way, and the little eunuch just adhered to his duty to lead the way ahead. Although Xia Mi seems to be watching the nose and nose, he is familiar with the environment of the palace along the way. When she reached her destination, sure enough, Princess Jing'an didn't even see a shadow, and only Concubine Liu was sitting in the main hall drinking tea.

Glancing at Xia Mi's figure, the smile on Concubine Liu's face instantly brightened. It's like...... Suddenly put on a mask.

People say that the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, but Xia Mi jumped out of the scene at this moment and looked at things with the attitude of a bystander, and found many things that had not been discovered before. Before, she only thought that Concubine Liu really liked her, so there would always be such a big contrast between the front and back, but she didn't expect that all this might be a disguise. It's ridiculous, it's not time to turn her face now, even if she doesn't like it in her heart, she can only wear the same disguised mask.

"Meet the mother."

Because Chu Li was named the crown prince, Concubine Liu was directly made a concubine by a concubine. Xia Mi, as a general from the first grade, only needs to make a half-salute when he sees Concubine Liu.

In an instant, the smile on Concubine Liu's lips faded, but she regained her enthusiastic appearance before Xia Mi straightened up. Holding Xia Mi's hand and sitting on the mahogany table, Concubine Liu said half-jokingly and half-angrily: "Look at you kid, what kind of false etiquette do you talk to me." ”

Xia Mi's eyes were dark, but there was still a smile on her face, and she lowered her voice slightly, and she said: "There are many people, so you must be guarded against." ”

The words mentioned were with an intimate tone, and Concubine Liu instantly put her mind at ease. But in just a short time, I thought that the emperor had just called Xia Mi away, and when he came back, Xia Mi became this close and alienated appearance.

Could it be, could it be that the emperor told her something?

As soon as this thought crossed her heart, Concubine Liu's fingers pinching the handkerchief couldn't help but tighten a little. By wiping the corners of her mouth, she also lowered her voice: "But what did Your Majesty tell you?" ”

A slight complication mixed with pain crossed Xia Mi's eyes, and was clearly captured by Concubine Liu. Shocked in her heart, she almost immediately thought of the matter of the crown princess from her mother's family, and her shiny and pink nails were suddenly pinched into a pale white.

How much Xia Mi likes her son, she knows very well as a mother. At the moment, Xia Mi looked sad but didn't dare to say much, and she also made a gesture of alienation, she almost immediately understood the inevitability of the crown princess and Xia Mi not having a relationship.

Cold sweat trickled down, Concubine Liu's lips moved, wanting to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.

When he stood outside the palace gate again, Xia Mi couldn't help but glance back at the red-brick and blue-tiled imperial city. Half-hooked at the corners of her mouth, she lifted the curtain and got into the carriage.