"Love at first sight?" Concubine Chen put down the teacup, raised her eyebrows and said, "How do you know that these so-called 'fate' encounters were not deliberately planned by her?" She named her 'Nameless' for today's perfume competition, and I thought it was a bit flattering......"

"Mother, Miss Shen is not that kind of person. What Erchen admires most about her is her unpretentious nature. ”

Looking at Ling Li, who was eagerly defending Shen Chan in front of her, Concubine Chen hesitated: "I see that your second brother seems to be interested in her as well?" ”

"Mother concubine rest assured, the second brother is just interested in the incense she concocted. Although Erchen is stupid, he also understands that his father's favor for the second brother is extraordinary, but if the second brother likes it, I will definitely not compete with him......"

Ling Li's words were particularly sad to Concubine Chen. Because he was not favored, his son could not be favored by the emperor. Her appearance is not bad among the concubines, but she was born in a family of military generals, and she is not good at poetry and songs, music and incense. Fortunately, God had mercy on her and gave her a prince, so that she was isolated and helpless in the palace.

At first, she also wanted to train her son to be a person with outstanding style like Ling Zhao, but unexpectedly, Ling Li was only interested in things like knives, guns, and clubs. Looking at her son's sad face when he was chanting and learning words under the coercion of the ring ruler, she couldn't be ruthless. She thought, life in the palace is already boring, and the concubines fight to the death all day long for favor, why should she bury her son's little happiness in vain in order to please such a man who likes the new and hates the old?

She originally thought that she had given up competing for favor and won a stable and peaceful growth space for her son. At this moment, listening to Ling Li's humble and tolerant words, thinking back to his low-key forbearance among several princes over the years, she felt that she had failed her duty as a mother.

Out of her mother's apology for her child, Concubine Chen nodded and agreed to go to the emperor to ask for advice on behalf of her son.

"When will the concubine go to ask for a decree?" Ling Li asked eagerly.

"The ninth day of the next month is your birthday, go to ask for a decree on that day, and your father will answer."

"Next month?" Ling Li obviously couldn't wait, "I think it's better to settle this matter earlier." It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, why don't you go for your son now? ”

According to the ancestral system of the Nanyue Dynasty, when the prince in the palace reaches the age of sixteen, he will be assigned to serve the palace maids and live out of the palace. Ling Li, who is over eighteen years old, had a maid two years ago. Although he is stationed in the camp of the infantry division where his maternal uncle Cheng Beikui is located, he is not a stunned young man who has not been in contact with women, and he is so anxious at the moment, which makes Concubine Chen feel a little distressed.

"Well, it happened to be yesterday. Your uncle sent this year's new tea, and I packed it up and went to your father's palace. ”

After that, Concubine Chen got up and ordered the maid to take the sealed black pottery tea pot, carefully unsealed it with a silver knife, took out the new tea inside and packed it into an emerald tea pot, and then selected the silk of the same color to seal the mouth of the ou, and picked a few strands of gold thread staggered ribbons, which were finely woven into a brocade rope hanging from the mouth of the ou.

Concubine Chen was unhurriedly decorating the tea pot, but Ling Li looked up at the sunset outside the window several times, and saw that the sky was faint and the sun was dark. Exhausted, he couldn't help but ask: "Mother, is there less Yishan tea this year?" ”

"This year, the rain is even, and the yield is not bad."

"Since the yield is good, it's not rare, why do you bother to disassemble and assemble it so much?"

"Your father doesn't like black," Concubine Chen looked up at Ling Li and said with a smile, "Besides, rare things are expensive." With such a big jar in his arms, he was afraid he wouldn't even bother to look at it. If you are worried about the key to the palace gate, it is better to go back first, and with the quasi-letter, I will let Chen Hui inform you early tomorrow morning......"

Ling Li shook his head and said, "I'm still waiting for my mother here." If you don't come back at the end of the unitary period, it won't be too late for me to leave the palace at that time. ”

Concubine Chen dressed up the tea pot, and went back to the inner room to change clothes and arrange her makeup, until the beginning of the unitary time, she took the maid to the Funing Hall where Emperor Chengde lived with the tea pot.

After his mother left, Ling Li was restless in Jiqing Palace. When he looked up and saw Chen Huishi coming in from outside the palace gate, he rushed out and asked, "Chen Huishi, what did my father and emperor say?!" ”

Chen Huishi was frightened by this sudden jumping figure, and it took a while to come back to his senses and say, "Your Highness is scared to death of the villain." The villain has just returned from the palace and has never seen the emperor, so I don't know what His Highness asked? ”

Only then did Ling Li remember that the carriage Chen Huishi was riding in was not the same as his own wind-chasing horse. After being stunned for a moment, he said again: "My mother concubine went to Funing Hall to ask for a decree for me, and I don't know when I will be able to return to the palace. ”

After asking what he wanted to inquire, Chen Huishi was ordered to go to the Funing Palace.

After going for half an hour, Chen Huishi came back with a smile on his face.

"What's going on?" Ling Li asked eagerly.

"The villain wants to congratulate His Royal Highness, just now the villain heard with his own ears that the emperor agreed to Concubine Chen's request."

"Is that true?"

"It's true. The villain went to the Funing Palace before, asked the consul on duty, and said that the emperor and the second highness were playing in the Fubi Pavilion in the imperial garden, and Concubine Chen was accompanying the emperor in front of the emperor, so I pretended to have something to report to the mother and went to the Fubi Pavilion...... "Chen Huishi restored the experience of going to the Funing Palace to inquire about the news to Ling Li one by one.

said that it was the end of the game, Concubine Chen handed over the freshly brewed tea, and the emperor was very satisfied after drinking it, so he asked what kind of tea it was. Concubine Chen deduced that this was when Ling Li went to Xixi Palace to visit the spring today, and specially asked her to bring the emperor's new tea to Yishan. The emperor was very happy to hear this, and then asked His Royal Highness if he had a favorite woman in Xixi today. His Royal Highness said that the group of official women were not bad, but there was nothing particularly eye-catching. Concubine Chen took the opportunity to say that Ling Li had taken a fancy to the daughter of Shen Zhenghong's family, and asked the emperor to fulfill it. The emperor frowned and said, "Then Shen Zhenghong is just a fourth-grade petty official, will he wronged the third child by matching his daughter to the third child?" ”

"Then what did my mother say?" Ling Li listened extremely nervously.

"Before Concubine Chen could speak, Her Royal Highness helped and said, 'Then Miss Shen has won the perfume competition today, and she is really a smart woman in ice and snow. The third brother only knows how to dance knives and guns all day long, and if he wants to marry such a clever person as his wife, maybe his son can also be infected', the emperor heard it and said, "Since Li'er likes it, and the daughter of the Shen family is also good, then it's accurate." ’”

Ling Li couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this: "Did my father say when he would give the order?" ”

"Concubine Chen also asked this, the emperor said that the crown prince and the second highness have not yet married the lady, and it is not appropriate for the third highness to take the lead, he wrote down this marriage, and after the prince and the second highness got married, he made an order." Seeing that the joy on Ling Li's face gradually faded, Chen Huishi comforted, "The emperor said that since he agreed to the marriage in front of Concubine Chen and His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness will wait patiently." I have also heard the duty of Ciyuan Hall say before, the prince seems to have taken a fancy to the young lady of the general of the auxiliary country, and after the prince and the crown ceremony, the wedding must be near. ”

Remembering that after the brocade curtain in the flower hall during the day, the prince was full of praise for the beautiful young lady of the general of the auxiliary country, and Ling Li was also slightly relieved.

"Third Highness, it's the end of the unitary hour, do you think you should go to Yanxi Hall to borrow a night, or do you want to rush out of the palace?" The maid Qingrong saw that the palace gate was about to be keyed, so she took the initiative to remind her.

Yanxi Hall is a palace room for the princes and ministers who have missed the time to enter the palace and have no time to leave the palace. Because this palace is close to the harem, the occupants are subject to strict approval and registration. If Ling Li went to Yanxi Hall to borrow it, the emperor would inevitably know that he had entered the palace.

After thinking about it, Ling Li still thanked Chen for his thoughts, and left the palace in the early night.