The Emperor's Favorite: The Beauty Disturbs the World

Chapter 186 The Embarrassment of the Mission

Time flies, and it’s another year of spring. The willows beside the Longchi look like Changxi’s first visit to Xingqing Palace. The peonies in Furong Garden are still budding. The flowers in Yifangyuan are already blooming and getting warmer. The severe weather caused the concubines to move around frequently.

"Yi'er, run slowly, and be careful not to fall!" Chang Xi smiled and looked at the prince Li Yi who was running on the grass with two calves.

Xiao Meiren sat on the stone bench and said with a smile: "Look at how quickly the time flies! In a blink of an eye, the little one in the swaddling baby will also run away!"

"That's right!" Chang Xi also sighed, it was quite difficult to survive in the struggle between the empress and concubine Li in the past few years, and she was always worried, only seeing her son growing up healthily was the joy.

Xiao Meiren looked at Li Yi who was rolling and playing with Meier on the grass, suddenly looked a little sad, and muttered to herself: "It would be great if I had a child of his!"

Although the voice was low, it was still clear to Chang Xi, "Your Majesty will go to my sister's Xiaoxiang Garden several times a month, and there will be a child!" The gentle voice was mixed with comfort.

Xiao Meiren blushed, hurriedly restrained her mind, and said with a smile: "Yes!"

Chang Xi frowned slightly, and was a little surprised to see her trance-like expression just now, Xiao Meiren and her had already become friends, and Chang Xi knew that she usually didn't care about Li Longji's favor the most, and she was surprised to talk about children today, why? How could he be so distracted, just about to ask, when he heard a gentle voice from a distance, "Sister Zhaoyi!"

Chang Xi covered his eyes with his hands, and greeted, "Sister Zhaorong, here it is!"

Yu Zhaorong approached with a smile, looked at Li Yi on the grass, and said with a smile: "The little prince is having a great time!"

Chang Xi took Yu Zhaorong's hand and said, "Sister, sit down!"

In the past few years, Yu Zhaorong has been in contact with Chang Xi. Seeing her eagerness, Chang Xi couldn't refuse. The two gradually warmed up. Chang Xi knew that she was part of the Queen's party, so she secretly guarded against her.Not confiding in her heart, and Yu Zhaorong seemed to just gossip with her and didn't take much action.

Xiao Mei said humanely: "Sister Zhaorong came so early, is there something wrong?"

"I have something new to tell my sisters!" Yu Zhaorong took a sip of the fragrant tea brought by the maid, and said with a smile, "I don't know if you have heard? The Japanese envoy has arrived in Chang'an City. I will meet His Majesty soon!"

"Japanese envoys?!" Chang Xi was taken aback, "What are they doing in Chang'an?"

This time it was Xiao Meiren and Yu Zhaorong's turn to be surprised, Xiao Meiren covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Sister, doesn't she know? Japan used to send scholars to Chang'an Guozijian to learn the ways of Confucius and Mencius. This has already been precedent in our Tang Dynasty!" As he spoke, he told some interesting stories about the envoys' meeting with him several times.

"So that's how it is!" After listening to Xiao Meiren's narration, Chang Xi suddenly realized.

Yu Zhaorong stretched his waist and said with a smile: "I don't know what novelty they brought this time!"

Xiao Mei said humanely: "In the past, I often heard from my father that these envoys will send some gifts to the concubines when they meet His Majesty."

"Yes!" Yu Zhaorong nodded slowly, and looked at the little prince playing on the grass again.

Chang Xi watched carefully while drinking tea, and saw that Yu Zhaorong's eyes were full of love, and felt a little surprised in his heart, only to hear Yu Zhaorong say: "The little prince has grown so big in no time! If my child is still alive, he will be eight years old." It's over!"

It turned out that he was thinking of the child who died before he was born, and Chang Xi sighed slightly in his heart. Thinking of the little princess who died unjustly, he had the same feelings in his heart as Yu Zhaorong.

"Sister, don't be sad, the child will come again!" Chang Xi consoled Yu Zhaorong by holding her hand.

Yu Zhaorong smiled miserably, "It's not that easy! The imperial doctor said that I hurt my body due to miscarriage last time, and I'm afraid I won't have another child!"

Chang Xi frowned, and stopped talking. Yu Zhaorong was in a daze for a while, and then he regained his composure. He forced a smile and said, "Speaking of these things made my sister feel sad, damn it! My sister is chatting here, and I Let’s go to the empress’s palace to say hello first!”

"Sister, go slowly!" Chang Xi and Xiao Meiren leaned forward.

Xiao Meiren looked at Yu Zhaorong's back and said: "She seems to have something to say?"

"Maybe!" Chang Xi thought deeply.The experience in the court over the past few years has made Chang Xi's city mansion deeper and deeper, and sometimes even Mei'er and Xiao Meiren would shudder at her cold expression.

"Yi'er! Let's go! Go back to Wenxin Courtyard!" Chang Xi greeted, raising the handkerchief in his hand.

Mei'er was sweating from playing with Yi'er, at this time Fang took his little hand and walked all the way back to the bedroom.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw little Zhao Zi counting the presents.

Chang Xi carried the child to the nanny, walked forward, and saw that the stone table was piled up with cloth that he had never seen before. The patterns printed on it were very strange, so he asked, "Who sent this?"

"This is sent to the palace by Japanese envoys to honor the ladies in the palaces! Beauty Xiao also has a share, and I am afraid that some slaves have already been sent to Xiaoxiang Garden!" Xiao Zhaozi bowed.

Chang Xi sneered slightly: "You really have a heart!"

Xiao Meiren didn't know why Chang Xi hated these envoys so much, her words were full of contempt, so she asked, "Don't sister like these cloths?"

Chang Xi smiled faintly, she didn't know how the damned Japanese devils would treat China in the future, and she didn't have a good impression of Japan since she was a child!

Little Zhao Zi saw that Chang Xi didn't like it, so he hurriedly said: "Then the slaves took these things away. The quality of Japanese cloth is not as good as ours in Tang Dynasty. These concubines like it because they think the pattern on it is strange!"

Hearing what Xiao Zhaozi said, Chang Xi had a flash of inspiration, and a plan suddenly came to his mind, and he said in a deep voice, "Will the Japanese envoys give gifts to all the concubines?"

"Where is everything, it's just a gift for those famous concubines!" Little Zhao Zi scratched his head.

Chang Xi nodded slightly, waved his hand and said, "I don't like these things, give them to Hua Cairen!"

"No!" Little Zhao Zi went out with the cloth in his hands.

Xiao Mei said humanely: "Since these envoys have already entered Chang'an City, I am afraid that His Majesty will hold a palace banquet in the near future. On such an occasion, some struggles are inevitable, sister should prepare carefully!"

"Okay! I won't keep my sister!" Chang Xi said thoughtfully.

Seeing that Miss Xiao had gone, Meier sat beside Chang Xi, smiled and said, "Did you come up with some bad idea again?"

"Where is the bad idea?" Chang Xi smiled sinisterly.

Five days later, Li Longji held a banquet in Hua'e Xianghui Building and summoned Japanese envoys. At the same time, envoys from various countries and the wives of ministers of the DPRK and China came.

Early in the morning, Chang Xi carefully matched her clothes and hair accessories, which neither attracted attention nor diminished her status as a concubine. She invited Xiao Meiren and Hua Cairen to go to Huae Tower together.When they arrived on the red carpet outside the hall, they only heard the servant shout loudly: "Wu Zhaoyi is here!"

Yu Zhaorong came out from the building to greet her, "Sister came so early!" Several people took their seats in the hall, looking around, only the Shangguan sisters and Guo Shunyi arrived, the concubine Li, the empress, and Concubine Mei were not there.

Chang Xi chatted with Yu Zhaorong for a long time, only to hear a loud shout from outside the door: "Concubine Li is here!"

Everyone in the hall hurriedly got up, and greeted Concubine Li silently.Since Prince Ying was established as the crown prince, Concubine Li's favor has increased year by year. Since the beginning of this year, the queen's guard of honor has been used. Li Longji turned a blind eye and ignored it.

Seeing this, Concubine Li became even more domineering, and ordered the concubines in the harem to stand silently wherever she went, and to greet Fengjia, otherwise, she would slap her mouth and scold at least. Concubine Li dragged her to the royal road and slapped her several times, making all the concubines in the palace more respectful when they saw her than the queen.

I saw her wearing a large-sleeved shirt with embroidered patterns woven with gold threads, the most repeated flying bun on her hair, and a red gold waffle on her hairpin.Behind her are two little maids pulling the hem of the skirt for her, and behind them are Fenglu, Liu Meiren and other confidantes.

"The concubine sees the concubine Li!" The voices of men and women bowing in the hall resounded in the air, but what they got was a sneer of contempt: "Pingshen!"

After Chang Xi returned to the case, Xiao Meiren pulled the corner of her clothes and whispered: "What kind of pattern is embroidered on Concubine Li? Why does it seem like you have never seen it before?"

"Isn't it the cloth that the Japanese envoys sent last time!" Chang Xi pouted in that direction.

Xiao Meiren snorted softly, "She really knows how to wear it!"

After a while, the empress walked into the hall from the door holding Li Longji's hand. Everyone couldn't help bowing down. Concubine Li stood up and blessed Li Longji, showing a sweet smile: "Your Majesty, Li'er misses you so much!"

"Isn't Your Majesty's lunch served in the Ganlu Palace? My sister thought about it so quickly?" The queen said coldly, dissatisfied with Concubine Li's dress like this.

Concubine Li didn't even glance at the queen from the corner of her eyes, and then said flatteringly: "Your Majesty, this concubine wants to sit by your side!"

"It's up to you!" Li Longji smiled slightly, and the chest of the queen who was so promising was heaving.

Gao Lishi ordered another seat to be added on the left side of the throne for Concubine Li to sit.Li Longji lifted his robe and sat behind the imperial case, looked around and asked, "Why don't you see Concubine Mei?"

Chang Xi hurriedly got up from behind the case and said, "Sister Mei Fei said she is not feeling well, so she won't come!"

"That's good! She likes to be quiet all day long, so she can rest assured to cultivate in the Dragon Palace, and I will visit her when I have time!" Li Longji nodded and said.

Seeing Concubine Li ostentatiously sitting on the left of Li Longji, the queen was very upset, but she had no choice but to say a few words to sarcastically, when the servant outside the door shouted: "Japanese envoy, Mr. Abei Zhongma is here. !"

Before the words were finished, a rather tall Japanese man walked in with big strides, followed by a dozen or so relatively short young men in Tang costumes, one of them was holding a wooden plate, and he didn't know what to put in the plate. Something, covered with a red cloth.The Japanese at the moment performed the national ceremony of the Tang Dynasty very respectfully, and said in unskilled Chinese: "The Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, Mr. Abei Zhongma, sees the Emperor and the Empress."

"Aiqing is free from courtesy!" Li Longji's deep and rich voice came from the throne.

In order to show the demeanor of her mother, the queen smiled and said: "The envoys have come from afar, regardless of the wind, frost and danger, and the waves of the sea, which shows their enthusiasm for my Tang Dynasty. Please take a seat!"

Seeing this concubine's dignified and dignified manner, A Bei Zhongma expected it to be a high-ranking concubine next to Li Longji, but he didn't know which of these two women was the queen?Looking at her attire, Concubine Li was wearing the cloth that the Japanese state presented to the mother of the Tang Dynasty.It turned out that these envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty knew that the Tang Dynasty was respectful and orderly, so they printed different colors on the cloth sent to concubines of different ranks.

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