At night, the main seat in the main hall of Weiyang Palace is made of fine white marble, a complete tiger skin blanket is spread on the white jade chair, the queen wears a purple and gold phoenix crown pearl hairpin, wears a golden embroidered cloud smoke shirt, and the inner skirt outlines the phoenix totem with silver wire.

She is about forty years old, and there will be two faint fine lines at the end of her eyes when the corners of her mouth are upturned, even if she takes a heavy fat powder to cover, she can't hide the traces of time, but she has an excellent temperament, and she has a kind of grace and luxury in the world when she smiles.

There was also a white jade throne next to her that was empty, and the emperor had not yet arrived.

The guests at the banquet sat on the left and right, the female guests were on the right, the male guests were on the left, Lin Yanxi was sitting in the first row, and when he looked up, he could see Shen Muzhou sitting opposite.

He sat in the middle of the banquet, his waist straight, without a trace of a smile on his face, and many people who wanted to befriend him were frightened back by his gloomy eyes.

She pursed her lips, tsk, Shen Muzhou's eyes were as if she was going to eat people, fierce and vicious.

"Xi'er." Concubine Yu held her stomach and walked to Lin Yanxi's side with the support of the two maids.

She was dressed in a light blue butterfly dress, with a jade hairpin on her head, a pair of charming fox eyes, and a kind smile on the corner of her lips.

Lin Yanxi stood up and saluted, "I've seen Concubine Yu." ”

Concubine Yu smiled softly and helped her up: "No need to be polite, everything is okay at home?" ”

"Auntie, rest assured, everything is fine."

Concubine Yu stroked her stomach and smiled with relief: "That's good, Xi'er, you are careful when you first come to the palace, my body is too heavy to look for you, if you have anything, you can come to your aunt for help." ”

In the previous life, when Concubine Yu took the little prince to visit Lin Yanxi in the East Palace, she saw the prince being violent, she was so frightened that she covered the little prince's mouth and fled.

After that, Concubine Yu never went to the East Palace again, and later before she was beaten and had a miscarriage, she went to Concubine Yu for help, but she avoided it.

From a rational point of view, Lin Yanxi can understand that Concubine Yu is Lin Ze's youngest sister, and she has only had a son after many years in the palace.

At the same time, she could not forgive those who connived at the atrocities, and it was their blindness that made the prince even more unscrupulous.

Lin Yanxi actually wanted to ask Concubine Yu, what kind of thing she said could ask her for help with anything, what kind of thing did she mean, and the level to which it was not okay to offend the queen and the crown prince?

But she didn't really ask, nodded and said, "Thank you, aunt." ”

Concubine Yu smiled and said: "It's polite to my aunt, your mother came to visit me when she entered the palace with your father two days ago, and every word in your mouth was you, praising you for being smart and clever, and your appearance is outstanding. ”

Lin Yanxi smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say, how could her mother praise her.

"By the way, the eldest sister-in-law also said that the relationship with you is tense today, and I want to ease it, let me teach her the most fashionable stitching method in the palace, and said that I want to make you a cloak. She's ...... character."

The queen sat on the white jade throne, and when she saw Concubine Yu's eyes sank, she said, "Concubine Yu, it's inconvenient for you to come to the palace for a banquet." ”

"Hmph, when the time comes, if you hurt the child, you will blame the head of the palace banquet held by the palace."

As soon as the queen's words came out, everyone immediately quieted down, and no one dared to speak more.

Concubine Yu smiled, her expression changed, and she saluted in fear: "The concubine doesn't dare, it's because I didn't think about it, and the queen mother was angry." ”

"The concubine is retired."

She glanced at Lin Yanxi helplessly with some embarrassment, and left Weiyang Palace with the support of the two little palace maids.

Lin Yanxi hesitated and chased out, "Auntie." ”

"Auntie, I heard that Nanfeng Temple is very effective, if the husband and the lady go to the Buddha together, you can give birth to a boy and a girl, I hope my aunt can get what she wants."

Concubine Yu was stunned, nodded and smiled, and caught a glimpse of the queen's vicious gaze in the hall again, and did not dare to linger any longer.

Lin Yanxi returned to the banquet and just sat down, when he heard a voice:

"The emperor has arrived."

With a sharp voice, everyone got up and saluted, Lin Yanxi looked at the little ladies of the family on the left and right, and she also knelt on the ground like them.

A pair of deerskin boots passed in front of him, and after a while, the emperor sat on the white jade throne, raised his hand slightly, and said in a deep voice: "No courtesy." ”

The crowd got up and sat back in their seats.

The emperor leaned on the white jade chair, the queen personally prepared vegetables for him, the son of heaven was very great, not angry and arrogant, and his eyes were deep and could not touch the end, making people unable to see through his thoughts.

Shen Muzhou's eyes fell on Lin Yanxi from beginning to end, she picked up a piece of sugar lotus root with chopsticks, and he unconsciously picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.

It's not delicious, it's too sweet, but Lin Yanxi likes it very much, taking a small bite after bite, and the sugar lotus in front of him will be empty after a while.

"Ninth brother, what are you laughing at?" The fifth prince, Shen Yu, asked.

In the palace, everyone in Shen Muzhou stayed away, and only Shen Yu, who had no heart or lungs, was friendly with him.

Shen Yu followed his line of sight, and Luo Jingxin was sitting next to Lin Yanxi, and he asked tentatively, "Isn't it a girl who you have a crush on, Luo Jingxin?" ”

Outsiders thought that Luo Jingxin and Shen Muzhou were a natural pair, only Shen Yu knew that Shen Muzhou had no intention of her at all, could it be that she suddenly opened up?

He suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Shen Muzhou glanced at him coldly, throwing him a nosy look.

"In short, it's not Luo Jingxin."

Shen Yu instantly smiled again and said, "Drink, the ninth brother drinks." ”

Then he grabbed Shen Muzhou's neck and whispered: "You promised me, if you like Luo Jingxin, be the first to tell me." ”

Shen Muzhou raised his eyebrows and looked at him, the coercion in his eyes made Shen Yu's hair stand up, and he quickly withdrew his hand.

"This little nine is getting less and less cute when he was a child." He muttered and drank a glass of fruit wine to suppress his shock.

The queen mother put a piece of pigeon on the plate for the emperor and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to distribute the fresh fruits that entered the palace this year?" ”

The emperor nodded and said, "This is nature. ”

The city of Nanmin is located at the junction of the north and the south, and then go south is the country of forgetting the capital, and every spring will enter the palace with various special fresh fruits, which are distributed by the emperor to the princes, concubines and ministers.

After a while, the eunuchs and maids in the palace came up with all kinds of fresh fruits, including watermelons, courgettes, cherries, etc.

Finally, a palace maid came up with a plate of lychees, and a layer of finely crushed ice was padded under the glass plate.

This lychee is a rare and precious fresh fruit that money can't buy in the capital of Nanmin, all the way from the forgotten capital needs to be whipped quickly, not delayed for a moment, and the new ice has to be kept on the way, and only the dozen or so in the glass plate are left in the palace tossed to the palace.

The man is okay, the woman's eyes are shining when she looks at the plate of lychees, Lin Yanxi has also eaten it once in the East Palace in her previous life, but she has long forgotten what it tastes like.

All in all, it is delicious.

"Third princess, Chaoyang County Lord, have you eaten this lychee?"

Luo Jingxin shook his head and said, "How can I have tasted such rare things, besides, I am not a greedy person. ”

Instead, Shen Huayun cleared his throat and said proudly: "I've eaten it." ”

One year, she begged her father for a long time, and his father agreed to give her one.

"Really? Then tell me about it, what does this lychee taste like? ”

"This lychee, the skin is purple and hard, the inside is crystal round, a thin skin, the thin skin is thick and juicy, sweet but not greasy, plus there is ice, the taste is cool and sweet."

Luo Jingxin listened to her description, looked at the lychee in the glass plate, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, his heart was itchy, and he wanted to spend a lot of money and taste it.

Even if you can eat one, you are satisfied.

It's a pity that although this thing is not a priceless treasure, it can't be bought with money in the capital, especially in recent years, the emperor thinks that paying tribute to lychees is a waste of money for the people, and it has not been allowed to pay tribute for several years.

Not to mention private transactions and reselling.

"I really envy the third princess, like me, I'm afraid I won't be able to taste it in this life."

Thinking back to that taste, she secretly licked the corners of her lower lip, begging if her father would reward her with another one.

As is customary, after the other fruits are divided, it is time for the distribution of lychees.

The queen lowered her eyes and smiled in the envious eyes of everyone, she is not a greedy person, this lychee can be eaten every year in the early years, what she wants is to use such a precious and rare little thing to show her identity and her status in the emperor's mind.

The emperor touched his beard and his eyes swept over Shen Muzhou's body, and he said with a rare smile: "This lychee was given to the queen in previous years, and this year it is rare for Xiao Jiu to come to the palace banquet, so it is better for the queen to give it to Xiao Jiu." ”

Nan Min has a total of ten princes, and the tenth prince died just after birth, so Shen Muzhou is the youngest, and the emperor always calls him Xiao Jiu.

The queen's face changed from being as proud as a spring breeze just now, Her Majesty has always been partial to Shen Muzhou, but today she didn't leave any face for the East Palace and Qifeng Palace.

She pretended to be gentle and generous and smiled tentatively: "Your Majesty, why do you need to 'let' the word, as the master of the harem, I haven't eaten anything, it's time to give the children a share." Is it just that this lychee should be given to the Nine Emperor Princes? ”

At the moment, she can not do it, if she wants to give it to the Muwang Mansion, then this East Palace should also get a share.

The emperor narrowed his eyes and said, "There aren't many lychees in total, so don't divide them, Xiao Jiu, come and receive the reward." ”

Shen Muzhou deliberately came to the palace in the afternoon to ask him for a lychee reward, he didn't care who this thing was for, but he wanted to know who Xiao Jiu, who had always been cold-hearted, was asking for.

And since this plate of lychees is a reward, it naturally has a price.

The queen was so angry that she couldn't do it, but she had to maintain the dignified and virtuous lady of the world on her face, but when she looked at Shen Muzhou, she was extremely feminine and vicious.

Shen Muzhou replied in a deep voice, stepped forward to thank him, and held this plate of lychees.

The little ladies gathered together, looked at Luo Jingxin and said enviously: "The county lord of Chaoyang has a blessing now, you have a deep love for the Nine Princes, and this reward will definitely be shared with your sister." ”

Luo Jingxin smiled and said, "The prince probably knows that I like to eat fresh fruits. ”

These words entered Lin Yanxi's ears word for word, and she scoffed.

No wonder he suddenly came to the palace banquet, it turned out that it was because of Luo Jingxin, she quietly looked sideways at them.

The pearl hairpin on Luo Jing's heart trembled, and she was particularly conspicuous in a group of little ladies, she was held by the stars and sat in the front row smiling smartly.

It's a good match, she smiled bitterly and looked back.

Shen Huayun's hope was disappointed, and he was reluctant to stare at the plate of purple lychees and said, "Yes, the prince will definitely give it to my sister, can my sister give me one?" ”

"I don't know when my father will allow the tribute of lychees next time."

Luo Jingxin smiled and didn't speak, but she was thinking in her heart about this rare fresh fruit, they are also worthy, only she is worthy of these good things.

"Oh my God, the Nine Princes are really coming to us, and they will definitely send it to the Lord of Chaoyang."

Shen Muzhou's seductive peach blossom eyes looked at the three rows of little ladies sitting on the right, and they were too shy to look at them.

Even Luo Jingxin covered his mouth with a handkerchief to hide a trace of joy, tidied up his hair, and waited for him to walk towards him.

I have already imagined in my mind that under the envy of the nobles of the capital, I took a small bite of the white skin of the lychee, and the sweet juice burst in my mouth.