The Emperor's Favorite: The Beauty Disturbs the World

Chapter 350 The node of fate
In the early morning of this day, Chang Xi got up early to serve Li Longji to wash and change clothes. Li Longji smiled and wanted to push her back on the couch, but Chang Xi refused.For so many years, every time Li Longji got up early and went to court, he tried to keep his voice to the minimum, in order to allow Chang Xi to sleep for a while.Today, Chang Xi went against his will because of important matters.

The two were sitting behind the case and having breakfast, Chang Xi held a silver roll for Li Longji, and said with a smile: "Today is the day of the election of the Six Palaces, Your Majesty, do you want to come to Furong Garden to have a look?"

"You can host it, I have nothing to look at!" Li Longji ate some side dishes pickled by Chang Xi on the rice porridge.

Chang Xi showed a teasing smile: "These are the family members selected by the Ministry of Rites from all over the Tang Dynasty. According to Fang Qing from the Yeting Bureau, they are all beauties with many talents! Your Majesty really doesn't want to go and see them?" Added another bowl of porridge for Li Longji, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "The concubine is nearly forty, and she is old and poor. Your Majesty should also accept some new favorites, so as to save time to complain about the concubine!"

Seeing that morning was approaching, Li Longji drank the half bowl of rice porridge Chang Xi brought in one gulp, patted the back of Chang Xi's hand lightly, and said helplessly: "I don't have time right now, I'll wait until I come back to take care of you at night, so save Make you talk nonsense all day long!" Before she finished speaking, taking advantage of Qiongyu's turning around, she lightly slapped Chang Xi's buttocks.

Chang Xi immediately blushed with embarrassment, and spat, "A man in his tens is still so unruly!"

Li Longji smiled and led Gao Lishi out of the inner door.

Chang Xi yelled loudly: "Your Majesty really won't go? I heard that the family members are as good as each other!"

Li Longji didn't look back, didn't speak, just stretched out his right hand and shook it again and again in mid-air, and went straight away.

Seeing Li Longji leave, Qiongyu laughed, "Ma'am, what are you doing to tease Your Majesty?"

Chang Xi smiled and said: "I am not teasing Your Majesty! This Palace is indeed old, people, you have to obey the old! But Your Majesty is different! Men of this age are the most mature and attractive, and besides, Your Majesty is rich in the world. Those young and beautiful beauties in the general election have already set their sights on the position of concubine!"

"So what? No matter how young she is, His Majesty still loves her only! Speaking of this matter, the old people in the palace and the wives outside the palace are very envious!" Qiongyu said for Chang Xi. Combing the temples, there are twelve golden phoenixes with night pearls in their mouths, which symbolize the power that only the queen can have, "Look at the phoenix hairpin on the head, the material and workmanship are all more precious than the deposed queen Wang's back then! From this, we can see how precious and important Your Majesty is to Your Majesty!"

Chang Xi felt a little sad when he mentioned this matter. No matter how hard Li Longji tried for so many years, he couldn't make himself the most honorable queen of the Tang Dynasty and his only wife.Those old ministers always hold on to the fact that he is a descendant of the Wu family, and as the king of a country, he can't always conflict with ministers, this will damage his prestige, and delay and delay the matter of his successor .

In the bottom of Chang Xi's heart, he really wanted to be his justifiable wife!Because of this, Li Longji felt very indebted to Chang Xi, and gave her everything a queen could have, except for the vacant title.

Chang Xi let out a long sigh, no longer feeling emotional, and ordered Qiongyu to change into a gorgeous palace attire for her.This set of palace attire was made by the Shangfu Bureau in a year. It is a bright yellow shirt with a wide collar and large sleeves. It is embroidered with gold and silver threads interlaced with the embroidered words of phoenix facing the phoenix. It is luxurious, but not cumbersome. It is one of her favorite court clothes for palace banquets and morning meetings.

Qiongyu selected a few pieces of jewelry for her, and it was time to finish dressing up!Chang Xi supported Qiongyu's hand and put on a luxurious phoenix chariot carried by a hundred people. Two feather fans woven with peacock feathers were held by two maids standing behind the chariot, crossing each other obliquely. The maid of honor and the hundreds of guards around her all declared to the world the supreme favor of this concubine Hui.On the way towards the Furong Garden, people kept kneeling beside the road, shouting: "Concubine Hui will be happy forever."

Chang Xi sat on the phoenix chariot, crossed her hands on her knees, smiled and nodded to the woman below.When it was about a stick of incense, the sparkling light of Qujiang Pond was already in the distance. Sitting on the chariot, Chang Xi could almost see the majestic rockery in the pool and the long spring flowing from the rockery.

Ever since Chang Xi became the actual master of the Tang harem, she advised Li Longji to open Qujiang Pond and Furong Garden, so that the people in Chang'an City could also play in these two royal paradises.At the beginning, this proposal was opposed by the ministers, saying that it was difficult to guarantee the safety of the royal family and the clan ministers, but Chang Xi insisted on it, and asked Heng Yue to make a detailed defense plan, and finally realized this proposal.

Therefore, since then, Qujiang Pond and Furong Garden have become a must-see for Chang'an people to go outing in spring, and it is also a good place to visit the lake in summer, play chess and make tea.Today, the location of the general election is at the bank of Qujiang Pool in Furong Garden, and the people of Chang’an City are placed outside the specified range to enjoy themselves. Even so, when Chang Xi crossed the aisle and looked at the people, it still provoked everyone’s attention There was a burst of cheers.

Everyone was fascinated by the infinite grace of the most beloved concubine Hui of the Tang Dynasty.Concubine Hui's thousand-year-old voice was louder and louder, and when Chang Xi entered the Furong Garden, she could faintly hear the voices of the people behind her.This is the openness of the Tang Dynasty that is different from later generations. In the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, women in the harem were not allowed to go out to meet people at all, but in the Tang Dynasty, this rule was completely ignored.

As soon as they entered the Furong Garden, Mei Er, Prince Li Ying and others who had been preparing there for a long time all stood up and saluted. The prince and princess were also present one by one.After Chang Xi got off the phoenix chariot, she heard the continuous sound of prostration, some calling for Concubine Hui, and some calling for Concubine Huimu.Since Li Longji canonized Chang Xi as the same deputy queen, he ordered that the princes and princesses in the palace must respectfully call Chang Xi the mother concubine, so many princes and princesses added the word "Hui" in front of them to show their intimacy.

Under this kind of prostration, everyone knelt on the ground, only Chang Xi stood out from the crowd, Chang Xi hurriedly took the hand of the prince Li Ying on the ground and said with a smile: "We are all our own, so there is no need to be polite!"

"Thank you, Consort Hui!" Li Ying smiled faintly.

Mei'er stepped forward and replied with a smile: "It's fine if you're in the palace. Today is the general election every few years, so it's better to observe etiquette!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and sat on both sides of the wooden case according to their positions, while Chang Xi sat in the middle and presided over it alone.Looking around at this time, he didn't see a family member, so he was a little surprised and said: "The newcomer is still in the Yeting Bureau?"

Huamei shook her palace fan and said with a smile: "The family members have already arrived at Furong Garden, but they dare not enter without being summoned by Concubine Hui!"

"Where are there so many rules!" He said with a smile: "Pass down the decree of the palace, so that those family members can see it!"

"No!" Qiongyu hurried down to deliver the decree.

Liu Cairen sat at the end, and stuck out his head at this moment and said, "I wonder if His Majesty will come to the Furong Garden to pick out beautiful women in person?"

(End of this chapter)