Gan Shunhua's biggest feature is that he has a very good memory, for example, he looked at a painting in the queen's bedroom, and because of curiosity, he actually dressed the appearance of the person on it, and remembered his movements and demeanor clearly. And this painting that made her curious was the one she was going to paint now.

She locked herself in her room and painted all day, not even for dinner. These other paintings are good, but the man's eyes are particularly expressive, and Gan Shunhua was attracted by those radiant eyes at that time, so he remembers it very clearly.

Originally, I was going to use ink made of obsidian to paint those special eyes, but now I didn't have time to use them, but using ordinary ink was not satisfactory. Under the circumstances, it was decided to use gallnut and sumu to make pigments, which can be regarded as improvised.

It wasn't until late in the evening that Gan Shunhua finished the painting. Looking at the handsome and beautiful Qianyuan on the painting, he put away the scroll and went to sleep with satisfaction.

Her Majesty the Empress of the Moon Kingdom is already forty and two, and this time her birthday is not done with much fanfare, the flood in East China has just been resolved, and the loss of labor and money will only cause resentment among the people. The empress, who has always loved the people like a son, must have liked it the last thing she wanted, so she only invited a few elders from the clan, as well as her own family members and a few highly respected ministers.

The Empress was busy with government affairs, so the banquet was held in the evening. Although it is simple, the etiquette rules are indispensable, and Gan Shunhua entered the palace early to help arrange it.

Gan Shunhua was thinking about where to hang the lantern, and his eyes saw Gan Xinyi at a glance.

"My sister is here." Gan Shunhua laughed: "I want to help the mother decorate here, it is very inconvenient for Sang Er to run around with this congratulatory gift, why don't my sister keep it for my sister first?" ”

Gan Xinyi took the painting from Sang'er's hand and unfolded it, and said with envy: "The painting is really good, my sister's painting skills are really the best." It's really enviable, but now that my sister wants to visit her father first, she will retire first. With that, he took the painting and walked away.

Night.

The midsummer night seemed a little stuffy, with the summons of the female official Qiu'er, Her Majesty the Empress wore a gold Zhai crown adorned with gold ornaments such as Zhu Zhai, Zhu Peony, Jinbao Fine Flower, Zhu Jin Zhai and so on, and she was afraid that it weighed several catties. He was wearing a large-sleeved shirt with a flower and bird pattern embroidered with a three-inch wide collar, a gold-edged apricot satin phoenix and a double dragon moire embroidered xia veil, a scarlet satin multicolored ripple embroidery, and the corners of his eyes were slightly drawn with a red pen, and the whole person looked majestic and solemn. She instructed Qiu'er to open the way in front and walked straight into Chonghua Palace.

This Chonghua Palace is the sleeping palace of Her Majesty the Empress, and is connected to the back garden, which is the best place to dissipate heat among all palaces, and it is relatively cool.

When the empress entered the palace, Gan Shunhua and Gan Xinyi entered the Chonghua Palace one step earlier, and they were gossiping there, and the joy of dancing eyebrows made the empress moved.

"What Hua'er and Yi'er are talking about so energetically, let me listen to it too, happy and happy!"

When Gan Shunhua and Gan Xinyi heard this, they both grinned.

"No, give me a hand." The Empress put her hand on Nuojun's hand and said.

Nuojun immediately grabbed the empress and sent her to the dragon chair before letting go of her and sitting on the throne below.

Seeing this, Gan Shunhua and Gan Xinyi came to meet the empress, and after saluting, they also sat down in their respective seats.

"Let me say, let me say." Gan Xinyi stood up happily and couldn't wait to announce: "The imperial brother is back, right?!" ”

"Look at this ghost girl," the empress scolded Gan Xinyi, but she had a smile on her face.

Her Majesty the Empress has a total of four heirs, the Empress Ganqin is the empress's child before marrying her husband, the Empress dislikes her very much, and sent her to guard the border pass, but she did not expect her to be angry, and sat in the position of the general by virtue of her military merits, and was named King Qin by the Empress. The second princess Gan Shunhua was born to the queen of the phoenix, and she was named the princess as soon as she was born, and the third princess was born to the empress's favorite Nuojun, because she was the most pleasing to the empress, she was also named the king of Nuo'an. And the last one is a man, named Gan Lanqi, is the empress once drunk and unintentionally fortunate to a male waiter's child, and later the male waiter was also promoted to the position of An Jun, originally from a low background should not be noticed by the empress, but the empress gave birth to three daughters in front of her, and suddenly got a son, it is also very precious, often take care of him personally, and wait until the day he became an adult, a Taoist priest said that he was a little angry, and he wanted to accept him as a disciple, and it was most appropriate to come back when his anger was gone. The empress listened to the words of the Taoist priest, and let Gan Lanqi, who had just been ordained, and the Taoist priest go to practice. Now that the Empress is in her lifetime, it is not surprising to see him.

"Meet the Mother, Your Highness." Gan Lanqi was dressed in a brocade cotton robe that rained through the sky. The robe is full of brocade and dark patterns. The waist is tied with a thick brocade belt inlaid with dark silver inlaid with jade. Walking in from outside the palace, he looked like he had come on purpose, and he walked to the center of the palace and bowed to the ground, saluting.

"Hurry up, good boy, let Gu see." The Empress smiled kindly and walked down to pull Gan Lanqi's hand. Later, he frowned and said distressedly: "Look at my good Qi'er, you have suffered a lot outside, right?" All thin. ”

"Mother, I'm a man, isn't it normal to be thinner?" Gan Lanqi also pulled out a smile.

"Even so, the mother is still distressed!" The empress patted Gan Lanqi's head and said with concern.

"Thank you for your concern." Gan Lanqi took a step back, took out a lacquered square box, and handed it to the empress: "Today, the master asked me to go down the mountain and return to Beijing, and it happened to be the birthday of the empress, so I picked a gift for the empress and expressed my heart. ”

"Look at the rare treasures that Qi'er brought me." The Empress opened the box as she spoke, and when everyone saw its contents, they all looked sarcastic.

Lying inside the box was just an ordinary broken stone, and there was nothing strange about it, so how could it be a treasure?

Gan Lanqi saw that the mother emperor was stunned and felt a little funny, and explained: "This stone looks very ordinary, but it is not. ”

Gan Lanqi took the stone from the empress's hand, pressed it on the surface of the stone, and continued: "This stone is called the Gramophon Stone, which looks no different from an ordinary stone, but in fact, it can record what others say, just like this. After speaking, he pressed lightly on the stone again, and then, the stone came from the voice of Gan Lanqi just now, and when he pressed it again, the sound disappeared.

Everyone was frightened, and they all talked about whether it would be witchcraft or something, and then thought that Gan Lanqi had learned from Taoist priests for so many years, and they changed their words to say that this was an immortal law, and even looked at Gan Lanqi with a little more horror and awe.

Her Majesty the Empress was also taken aback at first, but later became very interested in this gramophone, pinched it in her hand and played with it for a long time, then glanced at Gan Lanqi deeply, and smiled: "Thank you Qi'er for the gift to Gu, this Gramophone Stone Gu likes it very much." You've got a heart. ”

"If the Queen likes it, it's fine." Gan Lanqi smiled back.

"I've seen a lot of lonely and rare things, but I haven't even heard of this gramophone, but I've never heard of it."

"A friend of mine gave it to me, saying it was something from her hometown and saying it was of great use, so I took it."

When Gan Lanqi said this, the audience was silent, Gan Shunhua sneered, she knew her mother emperor too well, this domineering mother queen wanted everything she got to be unique, and she hated the second-hand goods used by others, let alone this inconspicuous stone. She had begun to anticipate the wrath of the Empress.

"Go put it away." The empress handed the gramophone stone to the maid on the side, asked her to keep it, and then asked Gan Lanqi to come up and sit beside her.

Everyone looked at the place where Her Majesty the Empress was slightly lower, sitting side by side with Nuo Jun and Gan Lanqi, and felt very strange.

Gan Xinyi was stunned, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

Yes, she also liked this so-called gramophone, and more importantly, she thought that Miss Lin might be very interested in it.

Gan Xinyi has locked the target on the gramophone, this thing, the mother also likes it, if he doesn't keep it privately, he will reward it to his father, but he fell out with his father again, how should this be good?

Thinking so, the Empress's inquiry interrupted her train of thought.

"What gifts did Xin'er bring, let me see." The empress then shifted her gaze to Gan Xinyi.

Gan Xinyi was stunned for a moment after being mentioned, and then ordered Qing'er to bring over the gifts, handed one of them to Gan Shunhua, and said: "This is a gift, my sister will let me take it first!" It's always good to be cautious and re-examine things. ”

Gan Shunhua looked at her sister's serious face, and immediately felt funny, since the Yurong paste incident, she has 100% trust in her, and this gift will naturally not be tested in front of her, so she hurriedly excused herself: "No, no, it's just a little left with you for a while, how can anything happen?" ”

Gan Xinyi saw that Gan Shunhua had no intention of wanting to do so, and he didn't force it too much, so he hurriedly presented his gift.

The empress gently opened the box, and there was a piece of jade with a crystal color and a blood-red body, which looked charming and strange under the light.

"Okay, that's great." The empress played with the piece of blood jade in her hand, her face was happy, and there seemed to be a flash of essence in her eyes.

Hearing the empress's words, Gan Shunhua felt uncomfortable, after all, this blood jade was found by her in every possible way, but these became the credit of her sister, but thinking of the jade cream, Gan Shunhua hid her unwillingness.

"Xin'er, come here." The empress put the piece of jade back into the brocade box, waving like Gan Xinyi.

Gan Xinyi hurriedly stepped forward, looking deferential.

The Empress looked at her lovingly, and then without hesitation, she plucked a peony-colored hosta from her head and put it on her head. Then let her go back to her seat.

Gan Xinyi secretly rejoiced in his heart, the mother emperor usually rewards gold and silver, but now he has given himself something, does it mean that his favor has doubled? Thinking like this, she saw Gan Shunhua who was lonely on the side, the corners of her mouth inadvertently turned up, and then sat back next to Gan Shunhua.

The princess is the prince, she didn't ask what gifts the princess brought, but asked Gan Lanqi and Gan Xinyi, this is really too excessive, Gan Lanqi is just a prince, anyway, he is going to get married, and it is nothing to favor more, but Gan Xinyi is different, I am afraid that it will hurt the hearts of the princess and the courtiers!

Thinking like this, Nuojun fidgeted a little when Gan Xinyi got up and thanked him.

"Hua'er should have prepared a gift too!" Nuo Jundao, who had not spoken on the side.

"Yes." Gan Shunhua replied, bowing his head slightly. Her wound has healed, and the effect of the jade cream is indeed good, but the only fly in the ointment is that although the wound is not as hideous as before, it has left a light pink mark, and after looking at it for a long time, it feels very eye-catching. She also thought about curing that little flaw with jade cream, but no matter how much she wiped it, no matter how much she wiped it, it was to no avail. Yin Zijue ordered the gilded mask to be placed in the room, and he didn't feel the need to wear it.

"What does Lone Hua'er prepare?" The empress quickly walked down the dragon chair, only to remember that it seemed to be a little unreasonable just now, and hurriedly came to Gan Shunhua, frowned slightly when she saw Gan Shunhua's injury, and then covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and then returned to her dragon chair.