At the beginning of June, the palace was already getting busy. Approaching the Dragon Boat Festival, the people in the imperial dining room wrapped thousands of zongzi alone, and the embroidery lady in the Guangchu Division made purse sachets estimated that her hands were about to break, and Zhulan Palace received many zongzi and sachets.

Yinzhen has begun to roll on the bed after six months, in order not to restrict the child's ability to explore, and in order to prevent Yinzhen from rolling off the bed, Zhu Lan finally let the palace maid into the inner room.

Before this, because Zhu Lan was not used to the feeling of being served, she usually stayed alone in the inner room, and occasionally called Yao Huanglu Calyx outside the house when she had something.

"Brother will have teeth in a while."

Mama Li is changing clothes for Yinzhen who has just woken up, and now that the weather is starting to get hot, Yinzhen is always prone to sweating when he sleeps, so he has to change his clothes every time he wakes up. Yin Zhen screamed aa

Zhu Lan didn't have time to take care of Yinzhen, what she had in her hand was the olive bottle with the azure glazed cone arch orchid pattern that Xuan Ye had appreciated a few days ago, and the Poria cocos next to her was holding a few flowers in her hands, looking at Zhu Lan with a curious expression.

"Now that you're teething, you can eat something." Zhu Lan replied casually.

When she was in school, she saw Lang Shining's "Noon End Picture", and she happened to take advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival Zhulan to be very interested, and wanted to restore the flower arrangement she saw, so she specially asked Poria to run around and find the five kinds of flowers she wanted.

Two hollyhocks occupy the main position of the vase, light purple and dark red reflect the turquoise branches and leaves, the flowers are brightly colored, the petals are in full bloom, the iris leaves and wormwood are decorated on the side, and the two red pomegranate flowers quietly poke out, adding a bit of playfulness to the clustered flowers.

"Niangniang thinks about it, how can the food be good with milk, and the elder brother in the palace is not without a nursing mother, according to the words of the slave maid, it is not too much to eat until he is four or five years old." As soon as Mama Li's words came out, Zhu Lan's face changed.

What are you kidding, you drink milk until you are four or five years old, and you are not a giant baby.

But because of Mama Li's special background, Zhu Lan didn't refute her on the surface, but her face froze a little, and she said softly: "Mama is right." ”

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Mama Li took Yinzhen to the yard, and Yao Huang and Green Calyx began to incense the house.

Incense is commonly used by the master in the palace, calamus and wormwood are mixed together, the taste is not very strong, and there is a faint fragrance, which can dispel mosquitoes, Zhu Lan likes it very much. But Yinzhen seemed to be a little sensitive to smells at this stage, so she asked Mama Li to go out first with Yinzhen in her arms.

"Niangniang, this is a zongzi sent from the imperial dining room." Xiang Xiu came in with the little eunuchs, and the dishes with zongzi were instantly lined up in several columns on the table, and Zhu Lan was shocked when she saw it, because there were too many.

The rice dumplings delivered from the dining room are salty and sweet, sweet rice dumplings such as dates and bean paste are placed on the left, and salted rice dumplings such as shrimp and ham are placed on the right. The palace people couldn't figure out the taste of Zhu Lan, so no one went to dismantle the zongzi.

Although Zhu Lan is an authentic southerner, she almost never eats sweet zongzi, she thinks it is really strange to eat glutinous rice, which is a staple food, mixed with sugar, so she has always only eaten salty zongzi. She didn't admit that she liked meat!

As soon as her eyes glanced to the right, the green calyx began to dismantle the salty rice dumplings on the right with understanding.

The zongzi in the Qing Palace are not very big, all of them are wrapped in zongzi leaves so small and exquisite, and she doesn't feel too full when she eats one, so Zhu Lan ate three in one go, and all the glutinous rice shrank in her stomach, which made her involuntarily burp.

For the first time, she found out that she was a salted egg yolk head.

The salted egg yolk meat dumplings in the dining room are really not too delicious, the quicksand-like salted egg yolk wraps the soft and delicious pork belly, the fat meat is boiled and the juice is wrapped in the lean meat, and the mouth is soft and rotten when you bite down, and it is not greasy to be wrapped in the salted egg yolk, and you can eat it with relish.

After eating the zongzi, the time was almost up, and the empress dowager set up a palace banquet in the imperial garden, not only the harem concubines, but also the Ago Gegege.

Before leaving, Rongyue braided a fashionable bun for Zhu Lan in the palace, and made a slight change in the original hairstyle, so that the bun was more suitable for the blue clothes Zhu Lan wore today, and it looked refreshing and clean.

Xiao Yinzhen was held by the nurse and followed behind Zhu Lan, and when they arrived at the imperial garden, most of the concubines in the palace had already come.

Sangege and Wugege followed their biological mother's side, Mo Yaqi was whispering to Concubine Rong, and Boole He, who was born by Zhaojia's family, Wugege was shy and shyly and didn't say a word, just grabbed Zhaojia's sleeve tightly.

When the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager arrived at the Imperial Garden, the concubines had basically arrived.

Behind them was a young girl dressed in Mongolia, sixteen or seventeen years old like a spring flower, her skin was different from the palace women's jade white, but vigorous and healthy wheat, with round cat eyes, called Zhu Lan more like a little leopard with vitality.

"That's the Borzigit Gege of Xianfu Palace." Seeing her strange and curious, Green Calyx explained in a low voice.

It turned out that she was Concubine Xuan, Zhu Lan suddenly realized.

Although this girl is still a character who has not been sealed, she is received according to the concubine master.

She is the daughter of Prince Heta of Korqindar Khan, the niece of Concubine Shizu, and Kangxi's cousin like Concubine Tong Jia.

It's just that this Borzigit Gege has been living in seclusion in the palace, and Zhu Lan has hardly seen her. Wu Yashi has seen so many sides, but he is not impressed.

She felt that Kangxi would not like such a woman at first glance, and there was no threat to her, so she left this Xianfu Gong Gege behind.

Zhu Lan liked her quite a lot, the vigorous vitality of the Borzigit clan was something she hadn't felt in this dynasty for so long, so she cast a curious look at the girl.

Borzigitge's reaction was very sensitive, and she felt Zhu Lan's gaze almost in the next second. She raised her eyes to meet Zhu Lan's kind gaze, revealing a puzzled expression.

Is that the concubine of Yonghe Palace? Why is she this expression?

"Kiya, what are you looking at?" The Empress Dowager saw Borzigit Gege stunned and asked a little strangely.

Ji Ya spoke Mongolian in her mouth, and she couldn't understand a word of Zhulan after saying a bunch of Zhulan, which was exactly the same as the feeling she felt when she could listen to level 4 or 6 in college, which made her eyes instantly burst into stars.

The Empress Dowager didn't speak when she heard what she said, but just glanced at Zhu Lan gently, with a smile in her eyes, and whispered to Aunt Su Mala next to her.

After Su Malagu retreated, several little eunuchs brought up a silver ingot-type square incense table, on which were placed a gold plate, and a few flour balls were held in the gold plate.

This is a Dragon Boat Festival custom that began to circulate in the Tang Dynasty, and it is permanent in the palace, and the person who shoots can take away the dough that is shot.

Because the dough is slippery, it is difficult to shoot, and for a while, the palace concubines looked at each other, and no one stepped forward for a while, even Tong Jia, who has always liked to pretend to be virtuous and virtuous in front of the Queen Mother, was deterred.

Without him, with the serious sinicization of the Manchus after entering the customs, there are now very few women in the palace who are good at riding and archery, let alone Tong Jia, who was born in the Han military banner.

"Long live Lord is here."

I don't know which Gege whispered that, and everyone looked sideways and saw Xuan Ye sitting on the banquet with the crown prince Yinren, flanked by the empress dowager and the empress dowager.

The little prince is now five years old, and he obediently greets his great-grandmother and grandmother, and his cute appearance provokes the queen mother to rub him.

"Huang Ma Ma, Huang Eniang." Xuan Ye nodded, seeing the silent concubine below and the sullen empress dowager above, he already had two estimates in his heart.

Pushed from the harem to the previous dynasty, since the Manchus gradually sinicized after entering the customs, most of the Manchus have now slacked off in martial arts, so Xuan Ye doesn't think there is much of a problem with the women in the palace not being good at riding and shooting.

Just thinking of the previous dynasty, his brows began to frown slightly. The Manchurians rule the country by force, and now the children of the Eight Banners are not as good as the generation, it is by no means a good phenomenon, and the blood is worn away by a comfortable life, and if something happens to the frontier, there is really no available talent.

After Kangxi came, the originally quiet crowd gradually began to be restless, and some of the little Gege below were already eager to try.

The Empress Dowager didn't say anything, so she asked all the concubines who wanted to behave in front of the Lord Banzai to shoot the dough in the dish with the small bow sent by the Internal Affairs Office, and there were three or four girls in turn, and they didn't even touch a dish.

"Gina, you go and try." The Empress Dowager couldn't help but glared at her niece beside her and motioned for her to hurry up.

Borzigit glanced at Xuan Ye, and knew in his heart that the Empress Dowager was in order for herself to leave a good impression in front of the Long Live Lord, so she happily sat down and picked up the small bow.

Mongolian girls grew up on the grassland, Gina's arrow was fast and steady, and she hit the dough with one arrow, and her posture was heroic, so that the Empress Dowager nodded again and again, and Zhu Lan almost screamed.

The girl's deep eyebrows and eyes stared closely at the arrow in her hand, and she was really handsome when she drew her bow and shot the arrow in one go.

Gina looked back and was stunned, and what she saw was Zhu Lan's starry eyes.

Zhu Lan: Ma Ma, this girl is really handsome, I want all her contact information within a minute!

Although Gina was a little confused, she still smiled at Zhu Lan, revealing two small tiger teeth.

The smile on Zhu Lan's face was almost unsuppressed, and the corners of her mouth kept bending upward.

"Long live Lord, the concubine also wants to give it a try."

The person who said this was Yi Quagege, who was four or five months pregnant, and her belly was not yet obvious, but the bottom of the flower pot had been taken off her feet.

Today she wore a Yang Fei color Luo embroidered begonia pattern robe, looking white and beautiful, her eyebrows and eyes flowed, and she glanced at Xuan Ye gently, and Zhu Lan felt that her bones were crispy.

The Empress Dowager was silent and didn't say anything.

Guo Luo Luo was also able to ride horses and shoot arrows in Shengjing earlier, and because since she was pregnant, Wan Sui Ye had less time to come to Yikun Palace, she did not get mixed with the position of the main mother, and she was a little uneasy, so she had to take this opportunity to let Wan Sui Ye remember herself.

She sat down and walked over to Gina, and took the bow and arrow from her hand, which was also a swift arrow, the top dough in the middle.

"Good!" Xuan Ye applauded and praised, "This is the demeanor of my full of children, come and reward Quaker and Borzigitge." ”

Having said that, everyone still subconsciously glanced at the Empress Dowager.

At first glance, this competition was specially prepared for Borzigit's Gege, but I didn't expect a Guo Luo Luo clan to suddenly appear, stealing half of the limelight, I don't know if the Empress Dowager has any thoughts in her heart.

Gina is also a heartless person, and she took the reward and happily returned to her seat, completely unaware of the dark tide surging in the crowd.

Zhu Lan couldn't wait to have a bag of melon seeds in her hand to make her stumble, because she didn't know how the next few people in front of her would react, so she looked at Guo Luoluo, Xuan Ye and the Empress Dowager with great interest.