After writing the secret letter, Cao Qichang patted it lightly with his palm.

Outside the door, Dugucheng quietly came to the front, "Father-in-law!" ”

"Send someone to the palace tomorrow and hand it over to the queen." Cao Qichang yawned and handed over the secret letter to Dugucheng.

"I understand, it's late at night, so let the child escort his father-in-law back to his bedroom to rest." Dugu Cheng took the secret letter into his arms and said softly.

"Hmm."

Cao Qichang got up and walked to the bedroom, yawning along the way.

Between his Dongwan bedroom and his study, there is a secret passage.

……

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Funing Palace sent someone over to convey the queen's decree and announce that the prince would come to the palace to share dinner."

Gao Jin approached the prince, who was busy reviewing the music, and said in a low voice.

Sharing dinner?

Yesterday, the queen said that the phoenix body was not good, and she didn't even want to meet each other.

After meeting, the two sides also parted unhappily.

But what does it mean to have a dinner today?

"Since it is the queen's decree, it is better to be respectful than to obey the fate, invite someone to return to the mother, and say that it will be in half an hour."

"Yes." Gao Jin turned around and went back to his life.

Yuan Zhi asked the personal eunuch to return to the Zhengyang Palace, found him a set of prince's casual clothes, he took a simple bath, and prepared to go to the banquet.

……

At the end of July, the 'Autumn Tiger' was raging.

The high walls of the palace city, the unusually hot and stuffy, and the fatigue of the people stopped the footsteps of the fun-loving nobles.

Fortunately, Funing Palace was built at the foot of Lishan Mountain, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with lush trees, blocking a lot of heat waves.

The queen is interested, and she spends the whole summer enjoying the shade under the hundred-year-old acacia tree and listening to the play.

The one who came to Funing Palace to sing was a young man, although he was dressed as an ordinary actor, but he looked quite strong, and he was by no means comparable to other weak plays.

In the end, it was a man, and the sweltering weather coupled with his hard singing made him sweat a lot.

Beads of sweat rolled on the man's skin and skin, making those palace ladies who had lived in the deep palace for a long time and rarely saw men, their throats tightened and tightened, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

It is said that the queen mother has always admired handsome and upright men, and before entering the palace, she often rode a tall horse and followed a group of men to hunt in the royal gardens and play polo together.

She scoffs at sick or roe deer men, no matter who they are.

Like Emperor Jiye now, she doesn't want to see it.

The weak and sick appearance has long lost the majestic shadow of the past, and the room is filled with a smell of feces and urine, and the smell of rotting corpses is also very strong, which makes Cao Feiyan, who has a habit of cleanliness, unbearable.

Her relationship with Emperor Jiye is not deep, he had a favorite person before entering the palace, and he was separated after entering the palace.

Later, the first love died inexplicably.

The cause of death is still unknown.

Cao Feiyan is not stupid, she judged that her first love died unexpectedly, either because Jiye Yuanren did it, or because her father Cao Qichang did it.

At the beginning, her father asked her to marry into the palace on the grounds that the family was prosperous.

It's hard to disobey my father's order.

Now, if it weren't for the Jin King Yuanxuan, in order to please the emperor and strive for succession, she would not want to go to Zichen Hall often.

A few days ago, the imperial doctor stipulated the emperor's visiting time, but she didn't realize that the prince did it intentionally, and she enjoyed it.

But today is a little different, since yesterday the prince snorted and brushed his sleeves away, the queen mother has been sullen.

She didn't mean to have trouble with the prince, but this was to compete for the prince, and for the sake of her only son Yuan Xuan, she could only be ruthless.

How she hopes that Yuan Xuan can succeed to the throne as soon as possible, with the support of the Cao family, and from then on, the country and the people will be safe.

And now the crown prince Yuanzhi, let him be a free prince, is it to come to Funing Palace to ask for peace, listen to the play, or have a meal together, maybe...

Thinking of this, Cao Feiyan couldn't help blushing, and her heart was beating wildly.

A few days ago, she was surprised to find that the current crown prince Yuanzhi, both in appearance and resolute and unyielding temperament, is very similar to her first love.

She is not timid and afraid, on the contrary, she dares to act, and she is an aristocratic woman who dares to pursue happiness.

Now following the rules is completely for Yuan Xuan to sit on the throne smoothly.

Everything, including desire, she can endure it.

It is said that Cao Feiyan is lying lazily on the soft couch, and her eyes have lost their former look.

In the past, she stared at the young and strong actor unscrupulously, with a smile on the corner of her lips, and did not shy away from the people around her.

The actor saw that the mother was absent-minded today, so he stepped forward and said with a smile:

"Niangniang, the sun is getting higher, if it is infected with the heat and hinders the phoenix body, it is better to go into the palace."

Talking nonsense in broad daylight, the sun is getting higher and higher, and it is sliding down the western mountains, okay?

The weather is sweltering, and it's true that the actor wants to be lazy.

The queen's eyes flashed, she narrowed her phoenix eyes, and said, "Also, Jasper, reward him with a few strings of money and help the palace enter the palace." ”

"Yes."

The play got three strings of copper and left in a hurry.

And Cao Feiyan was carried by the two palace ladies and returned to Shulan Palace.

Under the acacia tree, the palace ladies who left a dry hand to clean up the aftermath like to chew their tongues quietly when they are bored.

The queen mother has nothing to do, so she loves to toss people, and the soft couch moves in and in every day, for fear of dying the heat outside.

The queen's phoenix body is expensive, so she naturally ignores these trivial matters, and of course it is these palace ladies and little eunuchs who are offended.

Now that the queen has entered the palace, it is estimated that it is unlikely to come out today, so they chew their tongues boldly.

"This newcomer is said to be very pleasing to the mother, almost every day he sings, there are a lot of people in the palace, and the others are not in the turn, and he talks nonsense in the daytime, and the mother is not annoyed."

"It's not, it's been almost two hours since lunch, the sun sets, and it's true that the heat is in full swing at this time, but now he is the darling of his mother, and what he says is what."

There is some unfinished meaning in the words.

"Stinky girl, you are jealous of your master and want to die. Don't think I don't know, you secretly gave mung bean cake to the tall guard outside the door yesterday..."

"Hee-hee... Didn't you send it? You also sent the first few, don't just talk about me..."

“？？？”

A few good palace ladies frolicked to have fun by themselves to pass the time.

In addition to the queen mother and the nine-year-old King Jin in Funing Palace, there are dozens of waiting palaces

Women, grandmothers, and eunuchs are gloomy.

Qianniu guards are all around the palace, at the gates of each palace, and the guards are not allowed to cross any of the palace thresholds unless they are emergency or ordered.

The palace ladies can see that they can't eat, so they can only look at the ocean and sigh.

"The mother is in the spring and autumn season, and she is now a living widow...", this sigh seems to have the meaning of sympathy.

"Ahem..."

Bu Shuren, the chief attendant of the Funing Palace, came over and coughed twice, which frightened the palace ladies and immediately silenced them and buried their heads in work.

Bu Shuren received a messenger from Cao Mansion at the Yuanmen, holding a secret letter in his hand, and hurried to the Shulan Palace.

"Niangniang, someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion is here." Bu Shuren bowed.

Cao Feiyan raised her eyebrows when she heard this.

She thought to herself, this is not a good thing.