The flower viewing on the Queen Mother Mountain is a major program held by Mrs. Zhang every spring. This year, due to the emperor's permission, the flower-viewing banquet has a strong lineup, and there is a forbidden army escort. More than half of the palace maids in the harem all served with him. The streets leading to the Queen Mother Mountain were all cleared, and the soldiers lined up with red brocade cloths in their hands to cut off the roads from the houses, and no one outside the banquet was allowed to pass.

On the fifth watch in the morning, the carriage sent by the palace came to the gate of the painting house. He was accompanied by a eunuch and a maid. The carriage was specially sent by Mrs. Zhang to pick up and drop off the painting and the painting to the Queen Mother Mountain to enjoy the flowers. The ladies and wives of the major officials in the capital were invited, and only the painters could have this special purpose.

When the eunuch and the palace maid walked to the carriage stop, they saw the painted summer mountain that was already waiting on the side.

The eunuch saluted with a smile and said, "Yo, painting adults so early?" It's cold outside in the morning, how can you come out to greet you? ”

Hua Xia Shan smiled and said, "Mrs. Zhang is gracious, send someone to pick it up, how can we be lazy." ”

The eunuch smiled into a slit in his eyes and grinned wide, revealing a row of yellow teeth. He said, "Are the two young ladies okay?" ”

"Alright, alright, here we go." After painting Xia Shan, he immediately ordered the little guy who followed him to go in and call.

The eunuch hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, it's still early, just ask the little one." After speaking, he slapped himself in the mouth again, "It's a small mouth." ”

In addition to discussing politics in the last dynasty and entering the palace to meet the emperor, Xia Shan rarely has too much intersection with the people in the palace on weekdays. Seeing the eunuch behaving like this, Hua Xia Shan didn't know how to deal with it.

He had a smile on his face, but his head was down and thinking about things. He wondered if he should invite this father-in-law into the house for a cup of hot tea? This eunuch was very attentive and talked to me, but his eyes looked into the room, thinking that he wanted to ask for some favors. But he has a pair of charming bones and yellow teeth, how can I endure it for another moment? Madame is not with me at this time, how can I do the thing of stealing money? If the lady is here, give him some money to send away, so that he will not be hated, and it will be fine.

Thinking so, Mrs. Hua and her party walked out. Huashu followed behind Mrs. Houhua, and bowed slightly to the eunuch in a dignified manner. Hua Yan stood silently at the back of the crowd, waiting to get on the bus as if nothing had happened. After the lesson of the last time, she did not dress up today, but wore a thin green light gauze dress, braided half of her hair, and coiled it up with a thin green belt. Quietly put on an extremely ugly makeup and put on a veil. On the surface, it looks refreshing and neat, not like a lady, but like a dexterous girl who does fine work. In order to get her mother to agree to her simple dress, she had to grind her mouth for a while. It was no wonder that the eunuch did not notice her, and searched around the crowd with his little eyes open.

Mrs. Hua turned around, beckoned lightly to Hua Yan, and said in a slightly reproachful tone, "Yan'er, why don't you come soon?" ”

Hua Yan obediently walked up to Mrs. Hua and did not pay attention to the eunuch.

Mrs. Hua nodded slightly to the girl beside her, and the girl quietly stuffed a red handkerchief into the eunuch's hand, and the eunuch pretended that nothing had happened, smiled and showed his yellow teeth and said, "Madam, two young ladies, please get in the car." ”

"Father-in-law, my wife is not feeling well, so she will not participate in this trip, and Mrs. Zhang has already agreed. I'll leave it to my two daughters. Painting Xia Shan said.

"Good, good." After the eunuch finished speaking, he personally patted the stepping stool and squatted in the position of getting into the car and waited.

Huashu bowed down to her parents, helped the girl to the side of the car, and saw the eunuch making a gesture of support, afraid of saving his face, so she reluctantly put a hand on his shoulder and got into the carriage.

Painted Yan let Xinqiao and Shenglan get into the carriage first. He turned around and waved his hand and said, "Mother, father, I'm leaving." After saying that, he strode into the car and didn't even look at the eunuch.

The carriage started and headed for the palace. All the carriages of the participants came to gather outside the Yunlong Gate. The carriages were lined up one by one, with Mrs. Zhang's carriage first, and then drove to the Queen Mother Mountain in turn.

The procession was mighty and thousands of kilometers long. The leader was the commander of the forbidden army, Nie Feng. Nie Feng broke his long sword on his left and led an army to open the way in front. Mrs. Zhang and Wang Meiren's carriage followed.

The emperor did not accompany him on the grounds of what the woman's family was doing, and because he couldn't bear the persuasion of Mrs. Zhang, he arranged for several princes and courtiers to accompany him to relieve the siege. Liu Yifu is the second protagonist of this trip, naturally needless to say, Liu Yizhen, the medicine jar, took the initiative to invite Ying to go for the first time, and this move attracted everyone's attention. Liu Che'er and Liu Yikang were naturally on the list, and Xiao Minglang was also named to go together. The carriage of the princes drove behind Wang Meiren.

Hua Yan lifted the curtain of the carriage and quietly watched the situation outside, and couldn't help but exclaim: "There are a thousand carriages large and small behind this, right?" Mrs. Zhang's panache is really big! ”

Hua Shu hurriedly covered Hua Yan's mouth, glared at her, and said, "You can't be so open-mouthed outside." ”

"I won't, sister, don't worry." Hua Yan obediently lowered the curtain and sat upright.

After a flat stretch of road, the carriage turned to a steep and uneven mountain road. Although the whole journey to the Queen Mother Mountain is not long, such a long queue will inevitably delay some time. It departs early in the morning and arrives at noon.

Before the carriage could stop steadily, Hua Yan couldn't wait to jump out of the carriage. She looked at the surrounding scenery, rubbed her hands, nodded vigorously and said, "Nested at home for so long, I can finally come out and stretch my meridians!" ”

Xin Qiao walked over, put a cloak over her shoulders, and said, "Miss, beware of the cold." It had just rained last night, and the grass was still wet and cold. ”

Huayan did not refuse, and obediently let her fiddle.

Hua Shu approached and smiled: "Xinqiao, you are too careful, now that you have rejuvenated, where is it so cold?" What's more, it's Yan'er's hot temperament. ”

Xin Qiao smiled back, she didn't say the root cause of the poisoning of the painting face. She only looked at her young lady with distressed eyes.

The Queen Mother Mountain is not high, but it is surrounded by strange flowers and bee saucers. At the top of the Queen Mother Mountain, surrounded by flowers and trees, there is a very wide green lawn, which is the meeting place.

The wives and ladies of the officials of the various families stepped out of the carriage one after another, followed the guidance of the chamberlain, and came to the cushions that had been laid out on the lawn and took their places.

Mrs. Zhang sat in the chief, gently sipping tea, leisurely watching the bright scenery in front of her. After everyone was seated, she said with a smile: "Everyone has worked hard along the way, let's have a cup of tea and rest." ”

The ladies and ladies got up and laughed again. The lawn was decorated with red, yellow, pink and green, and it became enthusiastic, and for a moment laughter resounded throughout the valley.

After a while, the palace maids brought up the delicate fruit snacks, placed them in front of the guests gently, and slowly retreated.

Hua Yan was eating a piece in his mouth, and he was still holding half a piece of dim sum in his hand, he got up slightly and looked around, left and right, and said in surprise: "Good guy, there must be seven or eight hundred people, right?!" The Queen Mother's peach conference is nothing more than that! As she spoke, a hand quietly tugged at her sleeve. Huayan thought that her sister was going to talk about her again, so she hurriedly sat back in her seat and pretended to be serious.

"You don't know me so soon?" A familiar voice sounded on the left side of Huayan, and Huayan turned around to look, only to realize that it was Xu Suhua who was talking.

Huayan happily sat down beside Xu Suhua, and said enthusiastically: "We haven't seen each other for a long time, right?" Well...... It's been a month. How have you been? I see you've lost weight. ”

Xu Suhua also looked at her with real eyes and said, "Since the farewell of Zhaoyang Palace, it has indeed been a long time. I wanted to visit the house, but I was worried that the girl would not want to see her. ”

The painting was puzzled and asked, "What are these words?" How could I not want to see you? ”

Xu Suhua lowered her head like a child who had done something wrong, and said aggrievedly: "Outside the Zhaoyang Hall that day, the girl fell down the bridge ladder because I ......"

Only then did Hua Yan understand the reason, she smiled and said, "I'm not telling you, I don't blame you for this, it's all my own inattention." Okay, don't take it personally, if you want to come and play with me in the future, just come and talk to me. ”

Sure that Huayan was not angry, Xu Suhua enthusiastically held Huayan's hand tightly and showed a bright smile again.

"What have you been reading lately?" Xu Suhua was eating snacks while chatting with Huayan. She didn't know much about her penchant for painting, but she casually asked 'them' one of the things they often did.

"Reading a book? Do you feel like I'm doing it? ”

"But that day, you helped Zhu Biyu to relieve the siege, how do you know so many poems?" Xu Suhua asked seriously.

Hua Yan put down the snack in her hand, clapped her hands, and did slow motion, while thinking about how to fulfill this lie, and quietly leaned into her ear and said: "That's what my sister taught me, how can I!" ”

Xu Suhua looked at the painting face in surprise, and smiled as if she understood for a long time. Seeing that Huayan was so attentive to her, she didn't hide it, but she liked this lively girl even more.

The lively atmosphere of the people chatting on the lawn soon quieted down under the command of the inner officer, and Mrs. Zhang was finally about to speak.

Mrs. Zhang stood up and walked slowly to the center, the floor-length skirt made of gold silk made her look like a bright Venus under the spring sun, she swept everyone with her curved eyes, slightly opened and closed her bright red lips, and showed an elegant smile. She smiled and said, "Spring is late, and the trees are blooming. Cang Geng, picking Su Qiqi. Now that we are together for a good time, we don't waste any more time. This year's cherry blossom viewing event will be different from the past. Picking the weed, picking the weed, and the weeds also stopped. There are Wei Fang Cai, today we don't just care about appreciating its beauty, but also learn how to sow beauty! ”

At Mrs. Zhang's will, everyone stood up and replied respectfully: "Yes." So the seven hundred men went at the same time to the field that had been ploughed, and the pit had been dug until the seed was planted. The chamberlains put bags of flower seeds on the track and field, and it was easy to get them. The palace maids were not idle, all holding teacups in their hands, waiting beside them.

"It's enough to show off in a different way." Hua Yan shook her head and smiled bitterly, picked up a wooden branch from the ground, and casually followed the crowd of people walking towards the mountain fields, she quietly pulled Xu Suhua next to her, and asked softly: "Do you know what kind of person that Mrs. Zhang is?" As soon as you exit it, it is a book of poetry, and it seems to be very learned? ”

Xu Suhua glanced at Mrs. Zhang, who was surrounded by the palace maids and attendants in front of her, and replied: "Before Mrs. Zhang entered the palace, she was just a woman from a small family, and she had been following her before the current emperor ascended the throne, and she had shared weal and woe with the emperor for many years. After the death of the first queen, the harem has not been established, and the harem is all taken care of by Mrs. Zhang. The emperor often praised her for showing off her wisdom and being a heroine among women. Over the years, it has won the favor of the emperor. When Xu Suhua said the last sentence, he blushed and immediately shut up.

Huayan didn't notice it, her mind was on pondering Mrs. Zhang's body. Mrs. Zhang is the mother of Liu Yifu, not only strong but also intelligent, such a figure will never be absent in the final battle for power.

Hua Shu walked ahead, and seeing that Hua Yan hadn't followed for a long time, she was worried about what would happen to her, and she didn't care that the mud on her feet stained her clothes, so she turned back to look for it.

The crowd is crowded, the red and willow green clothes are simply dazzling, and the painting Shu can't be found left and right, and she is separated from the close-fitting girl. She struggled out of the heavy dirt of the field, and soon she was exhausted, so she went to a no-man's corner and sat down to rest. She was also too inactive, but she had only walked a few hundred meters, her face was white, and her head was dizzy. She took out a handkerchief from her cuff and wiped the sweat from her forehead, she was so tired that she didn't even have the strength to speak.

"Is the girl tired? I have water here. A man's voice suddenly sounded behind Hua Shu. Hua Shu was suddenly startled, and hurriedly stood up from the ground, with too much force for a while, dizzy, and her eyes were black, and she was about to fall, but fortunately, the man reacted quickly and supported her.

The man gently sat down on the ground with the fainting painter, rested her head on his shoulder, opened the kettle, and fed her a few sips of water.

After a while, Hua Shu woke up from her dizziness, and when she looked at it, she was leaning on a man's arms, she stood up in a panic, leaned over and saluted: "Hua Shu has seen the son of the world." Painting Shu is rude, please forgive the son. ”

The man was Liu Yifu. Liu Yifu, who has been unrestrained since he was a child and is used to playing, how could he obediently do the boring errand of sowing seeds. He took advantage of Mrs. Zhang's unpreparedness and came to the uninhabited flower path alone to take a rest, but he accidentally found Huashu, a woman who looked like a fairy. He had seen Huashu, the first time in Liu Che'er's mansion, and the second time at the wine tasting banquet in Zhaoyang Palace, and he had always paid attention to her. The third time he met today, he finally had a chance to get close to her and say a few words.

Liu Yifu smiled and shook his head, "It's okay." Then he handed the kettle and said, "Drink some more water, you seem to be tired." ”

Hua Shu remembered her gaffe just now, and was ashamed, she took a small step back and said, "Thank you, Shizi, no need." ”

Liu Yifu's enthusiasm was cold, so that his original curiosity about painting Shu gradually retracted, and he was a person who was only three points hot about anything. He opened the kettle, drank it all in one gulp, brushed his loose hair, and went back to his original position to lie down, ready to take a nap, only to find that Huashu was still standing on his back. He sat up, held his chin with his hand, looked at Huashu and smiled, and said, "Do you want to sit down and enjoy the flowers with me?" ”

Huashu panicked and hurriedly said, "Huashu won't disturb the prince's rest, retire." ”

Liu Yifu looked at the back of Hua Shuyuan, shook his head and said to himself: "After all, she is a beauty on paper, and she is not interesting." ”