This non-local official who didn't know the details was really frightened by Yang Zhao, and teasingly forked his hand. Everyone speculated about his identity, but no one stopped him.

He walked up to the eunuch, arched his hand with a smile on his face, took the gift card from his sleeve, and handed it to the other party. The eunuch opened the post and looked at it, bowed down and squeezed out a sharp voice from his throat and smiled: "It turned out to be Uncle Yang, the slave maid gave you a gift." ”

"Well said, well said." Yang Zhao smiled and waved his hand, and was about to walk in, but was blocked by the eunuch's smiling face: "Uncle Yang, the slave maid can't let you in for the time being, the concubine Niangniang ordered, you will be the last to go in today." Since it is his own family, of course, he has to let people outside the family first. ”

Yang Zhao was speechless, so he had to retreat to the end of the crowd stupidly, Li Siye turned around and smiled at him, but the other party's face turned a little blue.

Li Siye originally thought that he was thick-skinned, and his strength should not be small. But it is ironic that these two similar qualities cannot be present in this person at the same time.

After a short queue, most of the people left their celebration posts and gifts, and they had to go home on the spot, and only four people were able to go straight to the forbidden palace. They were An Qingxu, the eldest son of An Lushan, the envoy of the Pinglu Fanyang Jiedu, representing Gao Xianzhi and his own Li Siye, Yang Zhao representing the Jiannan Jiedu envoy, and An Sishun representing the Fumeng Lingcha.

The four of them entered the city cave with their retinue and gifts, passed through the long palace walls and masonry roads, and stood under the gatehouse in front of the Changqing Palace.

"Please wait, the slave will go in and pay homage to the mother."

The four of them crossed their hands and waited at the bottom of the gatehouse, without communicating with each other. Li Siye set his eyes on An Qingxu, a Sogdian boy with freckles on his face, probably no more than twenty years old, and looking a little shy.

An Qingxu raised the corners of his eyebrows and peeked at An Sishun, who was standing there with his hands on his stomach and his eyes closed, probably estimating that he couldn't dodge, so he stepped forward to salute and fork his hands: "Nephew Qingxu to see uncle." ”

An Sishun narrowed his eyes and mumbled without any expression on his face, and this humming sound was also perfunctory, as if he was clearing the thick phlegm in his throat.

The corners of Yang Zhao's mouth snorted, thinking that this kid's uncle was a little late, and there was no one in the relationship to this extent.

Li Siye has a different opinion, An Lushan and An Sishun are completely different people, and it is estimated that they will not be able to pee in the same pot, and this kind of estrangement also indicates that they will have different positions in the future and are destined to have different endings.

In the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, what kind of kinship with the same clan is the most unreliable. Li Linfu is the nephew of Jiang Yan, the Duke of Chu, and Wei Jian's wife is Jiang Yan's daughter, and the two sides have a cousin relationship. However, when Wei Jian entered the court and was about to pay homage to the prime minister, he was the prince's eldest brother, which caused Li Linfu to be jealous, and he was finally framed to death. Li Linfu and Li Shizhi are both clansmen, although they are out of five suits, they are forced to die in order to fight for power and profit.

At this time, the eunuch led a group of little eunuchs to the gatehouse, and said, "The retinue you brought is waiting here, and the gifts will be taken by the people in the palace for them." ”

"You four will go in with me."

The four of them walked side by side, followed by their gifts, and came to the front of the Changqing Hall along the stone path, stepping on the stone steps step by step, and crossing the threshold into the hall.

The Changqing hall is small in scale, there are only four pillars in the depth, the palace yellow gauze tent hangs on both sides of the pillar, the center is the palace platform, there is a long sitting collapse on it, the center of the collapse is separated by a few drums, Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan sit cross-legged on both sides of the couch respectively, and support several elbows on several sides according to the dwarf.

After the four of them knelt down and kowtowed at the same time, their voices were uneven and congratulated: "Congratulations to the saint, congratulations to the concubine." ”

Li Longji bowed his head and said, "Let's all get up and speak." ”

The people stood up in the middle of the temple and stood on both sides of the temple, and a group of small eunuchs stood behind them with gifts.

Li Longji was in a happy mood and said with a smile: "You are all here today to congratulate the concubine on her promotion, and you have also brought the tribute gifts, who will give the gift first?" ”

The four of them glanced at each other, and the gifts they were carrying were sealed like couriers, and the order of order must have been very different. Usually the best treasure is the finale, but who can guarantee that their gifts are more expensive than others. But if the two have similar gifts, the one who appears first will naturally have the advantage.

An Sishun stepped forward and said, "I don't dare to specialize, and I also ask the saint and the noble lady to choose." ”

Yang Yuhuan was already full of anticipation, and the happiness of her mood at this time was estimated to be the same as that of the girls who opened the courier, and she raised her moist eyes and glanced at San Lang beside her. The emperor said with a smile on his lips: "Today is your good day, I am just a spectator on the side, and everything is up to you." ”

She raised her chin, pointed at An Sishun and said, "In that case, let's start with the general who spoke just now." ”

An Sishun put his hands together and crossed his hands: "Xie Niangniang." ”

With a wave of his hand, he called the six eunuchs with gifts to the front, and lifted the red veil above the first gift, but it was a round gold box in his hand. He opened the golden box, and inside was a mass of crimson rouge.

He opened his mouth to introduce: "This is a rouge made of cinnabar, rhubarb and qin gang from Yanzhi Mountain, as well as snow lotus from Tianshan Mountain, which is applied to the skin with a ruddy and near-texture color. ”

Yang Yuhuan just supported his sideburns and nodded, An Sishun had to introduce the next product, a wine bottle made of jade, ultra-thin and clear, you can vaguely see the bright red wine inside from the outside, and there are several wine cups next to the wine bottle, which are white and blue.

"This is a wine rich in Wuwei City, and Fumeng Zhongcheng specially selected 60 years of fine wine. These bottles and cups are glow-in-the-dark cups made of jade that glow at night, so you can drink them even at night when there are no lights. ”

Yang Guifei covered her chin with her cuffs and smiled: "This is good." ”

The gauze on other things was also uncovered one by one, and it was nothing more than some walnuts, pineapples, and cistanche, a specialty of Hexi, and Cistanche, which was called desert ginseng.

With An Sishun at the bottom, Yang Yuhuan was very interested, pointed at An Qingxu and asked, "You are Lu'er's son, what kind of congratulatory gift did your father prepare for me?" ”

An Qingxu didn't have the same thick skin as his father, so he didn't call him grandmother, but just bowed down and said, "Niangniang, please take a look." ”

He lifted the first gauze, and it turned out to be a bamboo cage with a young red-crowned crane in it.

Without his introduction, Yang Yuhuan praised in surprise: "It's so beautiful, there are such beautiful birds in the world." ”

An Qingxu didn't talk much nonsense, and directly lifted the second gauze scarf, inside was a wooden box, and when he opened the wooden box, it was a thick ginseng.

"This ginseng has been growing underground for nearly a thousand years, and my father sent more than 50 experienced ginseng pickers to catch it."

Yang Yuhuan couldn't help but smile and said, "Is it alive?" ”

"The minister didn't know, but I just heard from the people of the Yan Tatar that the older the ginseng, the more spiritual it is, and it can avoid the ginseng pickers for soil escape. Only after such participation will it prolong life and maintain youth. ”

An Qingxu lifted the third scarf, took out the mink cloak folded on the plate, held it in his hand and said: "This is a mink cloak made by my father who went hunting for a winter, hunted and killed more than 30 mink, and found someone to tann for the concubine Niangniang. This thing is very cold, and when you travel in winter, as long as you are wrapped in the body, even in the ice and snow, it will not be cold.

According to the gift list read by An Qingxu, An Lushan's gift to the concubine also included a purple shirt tree transplanted from Silla, which was inconvenient to bring into the palace and had been planted in Xingqing Palace. There were also ten slaves and maidservants brought from Silla and gave them to Yang Guifei to reward her family.

Kunlun slave and Silla maid are the two major specialties of human trafficking in the Tang Dynasty, and the dignitaries and nobles rushed to buy them, which belong to the priceless kind in the market.

An Lushan was so willing to spend a lot of money, which made Yang Guifei more and more happy, and said with a smile: "It seems that Lu'er is more filial to me." ”

An Qingxu lowered his head and blushed a little, after all, he was still too young, and he didn't have the face of his father, so he took advantage of the situation to kneel down and call grandma or grandmother.

Yang Yuhuan finally raised her head and looked at Li Siye, her eyebrows were raised, her eyes were full of waves, she picked the corner of her eyes and asked with a smile: "Li Siye, what gift have you brought to the palace, bring it up and take a look." ”

Li Siye lowered his head and crossed his hands and said, "Huh." ”

He waved his hand at the three eunuchs below, one of whom came up with a wooden box, and the other two carried a heavy object wrapped in a sandwich wrapped in sheep felt, which was very heavy and difficult from the pace of view.

Yang Zhao stood behind and couldn't help touching his nose and smiling, there were only two gifts, which looked very shabby. Is it because Anxi is poor and desert, or are these people stingy, and they dare not even care about the gifts for the concubine.