Although there are many festivals throughout the year, compared with the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals that are not holidays, New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, and Winter Solstice are the three major festivals that are genuine. There are five days off on New Year's Day, ten days off for the Lantern Festival, and three days off for the winter solstice. Only this year, the situation is a little special, one is the winter solstice day there is the crown prince's canonization ceremony, and at the same time the Suzhou victory of the prisoner gift, in addition to the preparation of Liaodong side of the winter all kinds of military supplies, not to mention the Ministry of Rites, other major yamen are also busy with their feet on the ground, these three days of holiday has become empty talk.

Now there is no queen mother in the palace, and even the imperial concubine has just gone, and the canonization of the East Palace is still because the emperor Chrysostom must not delay it anymore, so there is not much festive atmosphere in the harem. After all, the biological mother of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was about to be freshly baked, died early, and there was no strong support in the palace. On the day of the winter solstice, when hundreds of officials gathered in the previous dynasty, only a few nobles and nobles in the harem were allowed to enter the palace to visit, which naturally seemed extraordinarily deserted.

Weiguo Gong Luo Mingyuan and Mrs. Lin had already left for Yunnan before this, and Concubine Luo of Duanfu Palace asked for an order to invite Aunt Luo to enter the palace to meet. She has a new little princess" The haggard and gloomy face gradually revealed a little richer, so that even the contours of the face showed the delicate of a young woman, and the hardness of the past. At this moment, she held the little princess on her lap and talked to Aunt Luo, chatting and chatting, and she sent the entourage away.

"Xi'er's affairs, are you going to continue to drag on like this?" Seeing Aunt Luo's appearance change miserably, Luo Guifei was angry for a while, "The child is stubborn, and you are also stupid with her?" chose Xiangyang Bo at the beginning, naturally because his family is simple and decent, but there are unforeseen circumstances. Who would have thought that this good and modest mission would end like this? As soon as Xi'er's filial piety period expired, you should have set it immediately, but after a delay until now, the unconscious Yang Ninghou actually came back! …”

"Every word of the mother is for my sake, and I am useless ........."

"Sister. What's wrong with you, where did all those shrewd and powerful people run away in the early years to say such frustrating things!. Luo Guifei was so angry, the little princess in her arms was suddenly frightened and suddenly burst into tears, and for a while, she couldn't help but be busy coaxing the child. It's easy to coax, but seeing that Aunt Luo bowed her head and was silent, she simply stood up and walked to the door. opened the curtain and handed over the child to the nurse, then turned around and walked back, "It's all the sins made by the eldest brother back then, if he hadn't forced you to marry ...... Yangning Hou." ”

"Mother, don't mention the past again...... Aunt Luo finally interrupted Concubine Luo's words, and then snorted unnaturally, then raised her head and said with a forced smile, "Enter the palace today" I also want to investigate, my lord has returned to Beijing this time, what does the emperor say? ”

"You're not asking about the promotion, but whether he will stay in the capital, right? …”

Seeing Aunt Luo's face stiffening, Concubine Luo knew that she had said it right, and immediately raised her eyebrows angrily. After sitting down and muttering for a while, she shook her head: "The emperor only comes to me about two or three times a month to sit here, and gossip is commonplace." I almost don't mention state affairs, and as you know, I don't ask too much about them. Only today is a prisoner, according to the general rules, whether Yang Yuhou is leaving or staying, it is a matter of the past few days, I will let people inquire. …”

didn't wait for Aunt Luo to thank her. She continued: "It's just that he is not a good person. It's your husband after all. With his current situation, he didn't have to give it a decree to marry Xu Xian, so you, a lady, are actually the mistress of the Yangning Hou Mansion. And you don't go out of the cold door, even if the eldest brother and sister-in-law are not there, "I am still talented, and I am still Xu'er, I will always support you at critical moments, what you need to do is to take out the previous confidence, don't be as submissive as you are now, you have never been this character in the past!" …”

Aunt Luo was shocked when she said this, pondering and pondering, her eyes finally turned red, and she stood up and knelt down to Concubine Luo: "Niangniang." Thank you for waking up, otherwise I'll ........."

"Okay, okay, our sisters, what are you doing here! "Luo Guifei held Aunt Luo's arm with both hands, dragged the person up, and then pressed the person on the chair and sat down" "I think that when I was looking for death and life, it was you and Xi'er who came to the palace to persuade me, and then fortunately, it was only when Father-in-law Xia reminded me...... All in all, I won't say much about the side, you have to think about Xi'er's affairs, she is still young, do we have to watch her green light ancient Buddha for a lifetime? . Although the ceremonies of the crown prince were originally extremely cumbersome, although they were delayed and deleted again and again at the beginning of the Chu Dynasty, to this day, it still took a whole morning to complete various etiquette. However, when His Royal Highness the newly baked crown prince followed the emperor to review the new camp and the avant-garde young army of the government army, and then it was the Chijin Guard Mongols to pay tribute, and when the sun set and all the procedures were finally over, he turned his stiff head before he could give anything, and a little eunuch quietly came behind him.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Xiao Shizi is gone, saying that the avant-garde of the government army is busy with military affairs........."

"See you here...... A guy who forgets his friends on the job. He muttered in the softest voice. Seeing that the Jin Dynasty came over by himself, the prince immediately put on a kind smiling face, and when he was about to salute, he immediately helped the person up, "Second brother, the courtiers have all dispersed, this gift will be waived......

"Etiquette cannot be abolished. …。 King Jin did it after all. Seeing that the prince had returned to the family again, he said with a smile, "I wanted to say that I would look for you to drink two cups of congratulations and congratulations in the evening, but now that you have moved out of the palace, the palace gate is early, it is really inconvenient, so I will prepare a table at home and invite you alone." "This is what you said, second brother! When the time comes, don't complain that I drink a lot of alcohol and eat! …”

The crown prince smiled and snorted, as if he didn't care at all that the large amount of food he and Yang Jinzhou had at the banquet in the Qianqing Palace last time was publicized to everyone. After chatting freely with King Jin as if he had no mustard, the brothers said goodbye, and waited until the person left, and he was relieved before he walked back surrounded by his entourage. is also walking in this palace, in the past, those eunuchs and servants who finished with a casual salute are now respectful, and some have never straightened their waists even when they go out.

The Chu Dynasty has gone through several generations of emperors, and the lord of the East Palace has always been set very late. The one on the left side of the Wenhua Palace, which is almost the easternmost part of the entire palace, is mostly empty. The maids in the palace are all assigned according to the rules, and if they say it well, they are people from the East Palace, and if they don't sound good, they don't even have a master to take care of", so more people are like boiling oil. Now that the East Palace has finally ushered in the master, these hard-working people are naturally doing their best to be courteous, so as soon as the prince, who has been numb to the smiling face all day, retreated, he immediately kicked off the boots on his feet.

"Your Highness.........

"Stop! Let me indulge for the last night, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to think about such nonsense in the future. ”

Seeing the prince say this, the crown princess Liangyuan couldn't help but smile slightly, and then took the hot towel handed by a palace maid, walked behind the prince and neatly covered his cold face. Seeing that he trembled, he immediately let out a comfortable moan. She had to press her shoulder a few times before she said, "Your Highness, how about the prisoner sacrifice in the afternoon?" …”

"Why don't you ............ The prince said this vaguely, and did not raise his head, but just let the steaming soft towel cover his face. After a long time, he uncovered the soft towel, breathed a long sigh of relief, sat up straight again, wiped it his face twice, and summoned a palace maid holding a golden basin to come over, washed his hands with hot water, and took another soft towel to dry it, and then said casually, "There are hundreds of people, all of them are listless and half-dead, there is nothing to see, but since there is a prince of Turpan." The meaning is different. As for the tribute of the Red Jin Guard, God knows if it is true or not. …”

"Your Highness, it's not like you're fighting now."

"You know, that's just talking here...... The prince threw away the towel and glanced at the people in the main hall, and then stared at Liang Yuan and said with a smile, "There are just a few people in front of you right now" If it is still spread, I think that the good wife will have something to do in the next while. …”

The couple gossiped for a while, and the prince let people take out his daughter. Although she is only two or three months old, the little girl has inherited all the advantages of the couple, with big black eyes. The white skin, wrapped in swaddling clothes, looked west, and finally couldn't help my father with his beard on his face, and cried loudly.

This commotion naturally made people up and down busy for a while, but the initiator dragged the princess and slipped away quietly. The husband and wife sat down on the kang in the Dongnuan Pavilion, and the prince handed a cup of tea to his wife, and then said as if he was careless: "Before the Marquis of Yangning entered Beijing, the second brother went to see him in person......

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin...... Can't wait? …… Liang Yuan frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "Before that, my father and the emperor tried to make the crown prince out of the crowd, why did they come to .........?"

"They are afraid that their father will take this opportunity to take down all those who oppose the establishment of the crown prince. …。 The crown prince took a deep breath and said word by word, "Of course, if the father really does this, it will inevitably provoke a strong backlash, and even the wrong person, but after the past few years, who will not know the temper of the father?" So. They would rather look soft than hard, and they would rather look dark than overt. As for the second brother going to see Yang Ninghou, maybe it was because of the past that he was a little wary, "I don't dare to fully trust those civil officials; Maybe it's because Yang Ninghou is a person with a strong sense of utilitarianism and is easy to move...... All in all, you might as well send someone to see Mrs. Yang tomorrow. …。

"Your Highness has finally relented? Speaking of which, I've never seen Yang Jiaren, but it's not good to go in person at this time......

"Didn't you fear getting into trouble before? The crown prince sighed, and said helplessly with his chin on his chin, "If I guess correctly, my father should dismiss the Jinyi Guard next." Since the commander of the Jinyi Guard has been empty in the past few years, but the power has been transferred to Aunt Jiu's hands little by little, I know that most of the time there will be this day. There's nothing wrong with that, in the early years of Taizu. There was no brocade guard in the first place. ”。！ ~！